Topic: Google & Carbon Emissions...

[Sarah90]

How could I not post this?   :033102luf_1_prv.gif: 
 
According to Wissner-Gross as posted by Lewis Page  in 'The A Register'  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/12/google_kettle_green_it_cobblers/
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Alex Wissner-Gross, Environmental Fellow at Harvard University and CTO of co2stats.com ("makes your website carbon neutral") has made headlines round the world this weekend with his "two Googles = one kettle boil" calculation.
Analysis Assertions by a Harvard University environmentalist and green-website promoter that two Google searches cause carbon emissions equivalent to boiling a kettle appear to be based on questionable numbers. Building on the new research, the Reg can also exclusively reveal that three days of normal human farts cause the same amount of damage to the planet as a Google search. Google, however, say that a use of their search engine is only equivalent to farting once..."

 
And more:

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Yes - every three days of your life your guts are needlessly burdening the Earth with greenhouse gas destruction equivalent to doing a Google search, according to Wissner-Gross' own figures.
It's hard to say just how many Google searches the average person does, but many of us surely manage to keep the number down to where our farting is on a par - in terms of eco-damage - with our Googling. Quite a lot of people worldwide, hard as it is to believe, don't even have computers or internet connections. But we all have bottoms."

 Or, as the Emperor here said once (paraphrasing here as was many years ago): "If we didn't have... bottoms...what would we...sit on?"
Seriously tho' - the article is worth a read, if only for a break in your...Googling Day forays.