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Newest cause of global warming: Internet searches

Depending on how long you took and what sites you visited, your search caused the emission of one to 10 grams of carbon into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming.

Sure, it’s not a lot on its own — but add up all of the more than one billion daily Google searches, throw in 60 million Facebook status updates each day, 50 million daily tweets and 250 billion emails per day, and you’re making a serious dent in some Greenland glaciers.

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This was at their website? Just checking…

apostic on June 6, 2011 at 8:56 AM

Yikes, someone ask Mittens about this.
Was just reading on Drudge the Australian columnist who wants Global Warming Deniers forcibly tattoo’d. Like concentration camp prisoners. In his article he cites such experts as celebrity actress Cate Blanchett.

Marcus on June 6, 2011 at 8:58 AM

Meanwhile, your Internet search has just helped kill the planet.

No.

What’s so galling about stories such as this is that even if every assumption about carbon emissions in them is true, then indeed we may be altering the climate of the blessed planet, but we’re hardly killing it.

“The planet” has been through far worse than we could ever hope to do to it. And all the carbon currently sequestered underground was once in its atmosphere. And life seemed to flourish when it was.

But editors around the world just let this nonsense through unquestionably.

Typhoon on June 6, 2011 at 8:59 AM

LOL How ’bout that volcano in Iceland, huh?

Fallon on June 6, 2011 at 9:04 AM

Curse this ecologically destructive digital age! We should all ditch email and go back to transporting millions of paper letters by air, land and sea every day. And reading our news on large paper sheets which have been delivered by diesel spewing trucks. Only then can the earth start to heal.

Sharke on June 6, 2011 at 9:05 AM

Next cause of global warming? Sex. Or else the lack of sex. Doesn’t matter.

rbj on June 6, 2011 at 9:07 AM

Hydro is not a clean energy. Is the author ignorant of the number of dams torn down?
Wind is not clean. Is the author ignorant of the millions of birds killed?
Solar is not reliable, and is not efficient. Is the author igorant of the amount of land which would be needed for panels?

KMC1 on June 6, 2011 at 9:10 AM

rbj; of course sex causes global warming. At least for those of us who might engage is some heavy breathing before, during and after. Of course, if that’s not you…

michaelo on June 6, 2011 at 9:11 AM

KMC1, also, the mining for and manufacturing of the rare earths of solar panels is massively destructive.

michaelo on June 6, 2011 at 9:13 AM

Funny comment from a poster from the Vancouver Sun as he points out … then it is Al Gore’s fault for destroying the planet.

And another one … all those websites with an online presence, who blame man, need to shut down right now.

And of course … Google must shut itself down to save the planet.

I’m sure they all will come up with a Harrison Ford like idiotic non response.

Brass on June 6, 2011 at 9:14 AM

Will the U.N. be putting me on trial for Crimes Against Humanity?

Tommy_G on June 6, 2011 at 9:15 AM

I am now dumber for having read that.

Red Cloud on June 6, 2011 at 9:16 AM

michaelo on June 6, 2011 at 9:13 AM

Absolutely. If you look at the manufacturing side of the equation, solar is a terrible environmental “solution”.

KMC1 on June 6, 2011 at 9:19 AM

Wait, I heard global warming is also caused by posting comments on blogs, the energy to process the request and put it down to permanent record can well do complex science that is beyond normal non-Nobel-winner understanding.

amazingmets on June 6, 2011 at 9:20 AM

Shorter story: Climate change nuts need more grant money.

World Bank is up to the task of finding it.

It’s all about the money.

Dusty on June 6, 2011 at 9:24 AM

Wait, I heard global warming is also caused by posting and reading comments on liberal blogs, the energy to process the request and follow liberal logic and put it down to permanent record can well do complex science that is beyond normal non-Nobel-winner understanding.

amazingmets on June 6, 2011 at 9:20 AM

Fixed

NoFanofLibs on June 6, 2011 at 9:26 AM

Sharke on June 6, 2011 at 9:05 AM

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Nay, varlet! We shall return to the daze of smoke signals and drumbeats, passing them along so that the message may become garbled in transmission and therefore unintelligible! Much like Ø’s analytical skilz.
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Seriously, I think some intern reporter is trying to punk the reading public in Vancouver and pwn him some liberals.

ExpressoBold on June 6, 2011 at 9:28 AM

Next cause of global warming? Sex. Or else the lack of sex. Doesn’t matter.

rbj on June 6, 2011 at 9:07 AM

Next cause of global warming? Judaism. Or Christianity. Or both.

petefrt on June 6, 2011 at 9:43 AM

How convenient – I guess that is one way to revive print media.

Queen0fCups on June 6, 2011 at 9:57 AM

In other words, the next time someone starts preaching about the need for cap-n-trade, just tell them to get off the internet as their preaching is dumping carbon into the air.

pearson on June 6, 2011 at 9:59 AM

ATTENTION–Breaking News!
The EPA has issued a directive that all persons will be fitted with a Gas Emission Sniffer starting January 1, 2011. Anyone exceeding the daily maximum allowance of breaking wind two times a day will be charged $1.50 for each excessive release of greenhouse gas. During campaign season politicians will not be subject to these rules for all the hot air they release. President Obama has said he will sign the directive and start wearing his GES immediately to do his part in fighting Global Warming.

Herb on June 6, 2011 at 10:41 AM

One of my pet peeves, are these celebrity scientists that BBC has. They make these propaganda documentaries telling everyone else they must not use energy while lying around the globe. From Tierra del Fuego to the Artic – they’ve never heard of stock footage. There is always the obligatory shot of them standing alone on a mountain that can only be reached by helicopter. What hypocrites!

Blake on June 6, 2011 at 10:58 AM