Environmentalists now after the internet!

**MLC** · 11th January 2009, 18:35

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...-a-kettle.html

The loonies are now after the internet.

I do hope that means they will all stop using it and let the normal people get on with it.

**big rich** · 11th January 2009, 18:38

Originally Posted by MLC

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...-a-kettle.html

The loonies are now after the internet.

I do hope that means they will all stop using it and let the normal people get on with it.

whens it gonna end

**GARY3306** · 11th January 2009, 18:38

Just at this moment in time i can think of at least two things that are more important, there may well be more, I'll have to have a think about it.....

. These people beggar belief

**Duncan** · 11th January 2009, 18:44

A typical search through the online giant's website is thought to generate about 7g of carbon dioxide.

Dr Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist from Harvard University who is leading research into the subject, has estimated that browsing a basic website generates about 0.02g of CO2 for every second it is viewed.

So really conclusive figures/proof there then?

A separate analysis by John Buckley, of carbonfootprint.com, a British environmental website, put the CO2 emissions of a Google search at between 1g and 10g.

Well that's a helluva difference in figures! Like saying my car gets somewhere between 5 and 50 mpg!

On his website, CO2stats.com, Dr Wissner-Gross wrote...

A separate analysis by John Buckley, of carbonfootprint.com, a British environmental website,

Err, pot - kettle - black? Those websites will be hosted on servers with backup/redundancy at data centres around the country/world!

**mhvcbv** · 11th January 2009, 18:48

i hope gordon brown dont read it
he will put an environmental tax on pc's.

**Birchy63** · 12th January 2009, 09:10

Originally Posted by mhvcbv

i hope gordon brown dont read it
he will put an environmental tax on pc's.

Don't even joke about it!

**amiddleton** · 12th January 2009, 09:38

Funny how he has a website though. CrAzY

**Lordnikon** · 12th January 2009, 12:49

LOL where will it all end ???

**Blagmeister** · 12th January 2009, 13:12

pffffff.... the world really has gone totally hatstand.

**keith1983** · 12th January 2009, 13:34

There is a fantastic example of this at a company near to where I work. They are part of a large global conglomerate and their head of environmental issues drives a stonking great big 4 by 4! Genius.