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What does searching on Google cause?
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — What does searching on Google cause? That's right, boys and girls, it's... GLOBAL WARMING! Posted by George Moneo at January 10, 2009 07:38 PM ...

Horrors! Google Destroying the Planet
JammieWearingFool — Some people have way too much time on their hands. Now some pinheads want you to feel guilty for running a Google search . All in the name of perpetuating the global warming hoax. Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research. While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates about 15g. “Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a great ...

Google searches cause global warming: How can Al Gore live with himself?
TigerHawk — In the pantheon of silly climate propaganda, mark this near the top of the list. Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research. I'd love to hear Al Gore's take on this, but I'm guessing that this nugget will not make it into the next edition of An Inconvenient Truth . Not only did Gore earn millions as an ...

Worried About the Environment? Log Off.
Patterico's Pontifications — ... A Harvard University physicist claims internet use, including something as simple as a Google search, has a “definite environmental impact:” ...

"Google are very efficient but their primary concern is to make searches fast and that means they have a lot of extra capacity that burns energy."
Althouse — And I are sick of your greenhouse gasbaggery. blog advertising blog advertising

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Jules Crittenden — ... All earnest, concerned warmalists, off the Internet now. If you’re serious about saving the planet, that is. Times of London :   Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research. While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates about 15g. “Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a great deal of power,” said Alex Wissner-Gross, a ...

AGW Today: Believers Must Stop Using The Interwebz
Pirate's Cove — ... It’s confirmed: the Internet is bad for global warming, er, climate change, or whateverthehell they are calling it nowadays. Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches ...

AGW Today: Believers Must Stop Using The Interwebz
Stop The ACLU — It’s confirmed: the Internet is bad for global warming, er, climate change, or whateverthehell they are calling it nowadays. Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research. While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates about 15g . “Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a ...

Harvard Scientist: Web Searches, Twitter, Second Life Are Major Carbon Offenders
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... We may soon find out. As reported in the UK Times Online, a Harvard scientist claims to have estimated the so-called carbon footprint of Google searches -- and it's not small. During the course of their article, reporters Jonathan Leake and Richard Woods use language the press usually reserves for conservatives and "evil" businesspersons: ...

You Are “Googling” The Planet To Death!
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Times UK: Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea by Jonathan Leake and Richard Woods Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research. While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about ...

The Google Carbon Footprint Open Thread
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Revealed: The environmental impact of Google searches - Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea ...

Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: the ghastly lie that is 'economic inequality'
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... : Pajamas Media (Roger Kimball) If Hamas is the victim, why is Ramallah so quiet : Scotland on Sunday (Michael Gove) Obama Site Linked to 'Bush Shoe Toss' Event : ABC News Michelle rips Obama's simulus plan and GOP complicity with it : Hot Air Pro-Pali rally attacks cops; NYPD kicks a-- : Jihad Press The myth of the 'Pro-Palestinian Rally' : Elder of Ziyon Mark Levin Show from Jan. 6, 2009 - a must-listen : Mark Levin (Podcast) The environmental impact of Google searches : Times of London Forgotten hoard from the 11th ...

Googling Harms the Earth?
Hit & Run — ... dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research.  But Google is not sinning alone:  Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, Rewiring the World, has calculated that maintaining a character (known as an avatar) in the Second Life virtual reality game, requires 1,752 kilowatt hours of electricity per year. That is almost as much used by the average Brazilian.  Whole Times article here.    ...

Global Google
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Shame on you. Every time you use Google, you are helping to destroy our planet. So says Alex Wissner-Gross, a no-good physicist from Harvard who is one of those annoying people who wants to take the fun out of everything. He has researched the carbon footprint of operating the Internet and now threatens to publish his results. According to the Sunday Times, Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea Another one ...

It’s Been a While Since We’ve Pointed Out That Google Is Full of Crap
Deceiver.com — ... But are you and I complicit in these planet-punking peccadillos? According to the Times Online, you might be killing us all just by reading this: ...