Odd story from 2007: Google warmists pay NASA for the right to land their unusually-large Boeing jet near their offices

NASA gives jet-setting Googlers the presidential treatment • The Register

As first reported by online gossip hound Valley Wag, the Google boys are free to land their unusually-large Boeing jet at Moffett Field, the NASA-run airport that's just a few miles from Google's offices - and typically off-limits to planes owned by ridiculously-wealthy private citizens.
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Through a private holding company called H211, Google execs are paying the organization "between $1.3m and $2.3m" a year to park as many as four jets at Moffett, including "two or three" Gulfstream Vs.

At The Reg, we're well aware that money talks, but the news is still surprising. NASA occasionally shares Moffett with outside organizations, but not unless they're doing NASA-related stuff.
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Well, NASA is claiming that Google was only allowed into the airfield because it's doing NASA-related stuff too. According to Zornetzer, the organization has been given "the opportunity to equip each and every [Google] plane with an on-board instrument package that will collect data on virtually every single flight that's made."
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That includes carbon dioxide and moisture levels in the atmosphere, and heat reflecting from the earth's surface - "all sorts of the things that are very interesting to us from the perspective of understanding climate change."