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- Monday, January 12, 2009, 12:07
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Google has responded to a claim by physicist Alex Wissner-Gross published in yesterday’s Sunday Times, stating that two searches performed on the search engine giant is equivalent to boiling a cup of water for tea. Now that Google has been charged with not being environmentally-friendly, they’ve become a little less secretive about their operations in an effort to stave off reputation damage. Google contends that Wissner-Gross’s claim is “many times too high†and that a typical search emits the equivalent of 0.2 grams of CO2. They say that driving a car about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) releases as much greenhouse gas as a thousand Google searches. Google co-founded the Climate Savers Computing Initiative and is committed to cutting its carbon emissions in half by 2010, or about 54 million tons per year. Based on my research, the average human emits 1.27 tons of carbon per year globally and about 20 tons per year, per person, in the U.S. alone.
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A social and fiscal conservative, I scour the news for information that disputes the current man-made global warming indoctrination that takes place around the world. I take a rather sarcastic approach to reporting on the nonsense being spewed by the talking heads in the media and the governments around the world.
