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Scientists: Google’s killing the environment

January 12th, 2009 at 7:55 am — News, Search Engines
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The latest global warming culprit is apparently…well, us. By that I mean the search engine industry, we as a whole heard that we’re the problem a long time ago.

More specifically, it’s Google that’s getting the finger this time. Apparently, between your computer and their servers running:

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.

The issue here is clear: Tea is far more costly than the Internet to the environment. Who goes first, India or the UK?

In fact, by the time you get this sentence, you’re generating a couple tenths of a gram of CO2 just from looking at this page, you earth-hating bastard. I mean, keep reading please.

Of course this was posted at a website, which not only runs on the same variety of servers but throws in a lot more intensive content, killing more metaphoric baby seals than a standard Google page. The site quotes techs and scientists (and reps from subscription-based sites for tracking your carbon footprint, hmmmm) who clearly corresponded with the website via carrier pigeon and everyone involved traveled to work, I would assume, by emission-free dinosaur or Tam Tam. The ironies of the internet age…

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