Stop Google Searches to Save the Planet!
The coup de culture is driving some of us out of our minds. This post has to do with the radical environmentalism/earth religion part of the triad of the New Western Order that includes as its other manifestation, utilitarianism and hedonism. A physicist has warned that we are destroying the planet by engaging in Google Web searches. From the story:
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 Harvard University physicist whose research on the environmental impact of computing is due out soon. "A Google search has a definite environmental impact."This may be worse than the dairy herds! Now you know why I call this blog Secondhand Smoke!
Labels: Coup de Culture. Radical Environmentalism. Earth Religion
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 4:27 PM
9 Comments
9 Comments:
I don't even get that. The computer is running all the time, yes?
Oh, never mind. Why should this make sense?
And here I thought that the problem with Google was that anyone can zoom right in on one's house.
Didn't they say that it's healthy to drink tea? Do we have to stop drinking tea now? Is it ok if we drink one less cup of tea for every two Google searches we do?
What if it's water boiled for instant coffee or cocoa? Would that help save the Earth by staving off global warming?
What about laptops? They just said desktops. Do Google searches register differently at the central location than ones from laptops?
Are they going to stop doing Google searches at Harvard now in order to be consistent with this great discovery?
Do they have any idea what they're talking about or is this just more eggheadism? How could Harvard be wrong?
Didn't they realize this when they invented computers and the internet and Google searches? What were all those scientists doing back then? Why this "discovery" and announcement now? It's catchy, though, and gives people yet another thing to talk and worry about. Combined with fear of global warming, it could lead to laws restricting computer use and internet searches, with fewer people receiving less information, communications breaking down...all very convenient for the onset of tyranny.
At least the heat is off the cows now and they are no longer the prime suspects. How guilty they must have felt for being themselves when they were "persons of interest." I was starting to get worried about their all being slaughtered in order to save the earth from dairy products and red meat on top of everything else.
Doesn't vegetation take in Co2, or am I remembering wrong? (I may be remembering wrong.) If it does, wouldn't more Co2 in the atmosphere encourage the growth of vegetation, which would be a plus for plants' rights and the environment, or couldn't planting more trees around these computer centers alleviate the problem? Don't the global warming fearers realize how big Earth is, and that nothing here isn't part of Eart and its atmosphere and thus part of a closed system? This isn't exactly river, lake, or ocean pollution, or cap mining, either.
Given the cold weather we've been having in my neck of the woods, I'm going to be doing as many google searches as possible to tap in to some of that global warming they keep promising us.
I'm also asking my sheep and goats to fart a little bit more.
It's hard to take this academic's blather seriously, but I sense another agenda here. This kind of "research" makes it easier for "concerned governments" to use phony environmental concerns to restrict citizens' internet access. We're going to deprive you of your freedom online for the good of the planet, you see.
K-Man: It's hard not to worry about that agenda at the same time that the media is failing to do its job and newspapers are folding, getting smaller to save costs and thus having even less content, etc. Everything is pointing to the looming end of a free society.
Right at this moment I'm hearing Rush Limbaugh talking about this on the radio, saying that Al Gore invented the internet and that the Google people are the biggest environmentalists out there, and how must they be feeling now...not to mention that despite "global warming," it's the coldest winter on record and people in Germany are being told not to wear earrings because they could stick to their ears and tear skin off...
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