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Greening the Internet: How much CO2 does this article produce?
CNN ^
| July 10, 2009
| Lara Farrar
Posted on 07/11/2009 7:59:26 AM PDT by Docs Galore
Twenty milligrams; that's the average amount of carbon emissions generated from the time it took you to read the first two words of this article.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; environment; globalwarming; internet
To: Docs Galore; OKSooner; honolulugal; Killing Time; Beowulf; Mr. Peabody; RW_Whacko; gruffwolf; ...
Carbon Tax, Cap & Scam Ping - (POGW)
These people should go back to picking lint out of their navels...
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posted on
07/11/2009 8:01:54 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: Docs Galore; rdl6989; Little Bill; IrishCatholic; Normandy; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; ...
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posted on
07/11/2009 8:04:40 AM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" - Lady Thatcher)
To: Docs Galore
What a waste of good carbon.
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posted on
07/11/2009 8:04:48 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: xcamel
Well it’s a good way to tell Environmentalist bloggers to stop being hypocrites and get the hell off “the internetS”.
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posted on
07/11/2009 8:05:09 AM PDT
by
CommieCutter
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/ht/qt/3013_08.html)
To: CommieCutter
Well it’s a good way to tell Environmentalist bloggers to stop being hypocrites and get the hell off “the internetS”.Any honest Environmentalist should do the right thing and off themselves or be considered a hypocrite
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posted on
07/11/2009 8:08:46 AM PDT
by
Popman
(Joe Biden REALLY can't be Vice President, can he ?)
To: xcamel
To: Docs Galore
Didn’t want to increase my carbon footprint so I stopped reading after the first sentence.
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posted on
07/11/2009 8:12:38 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(The Capitol, the White House, the Court House...........America's Axis of Evil)
To: Docs Galore
The trees on my property provide oxygen and take carbon out of the air for thousands of people. Of course the liberals do not see this and want to penalize me.
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posted on
07/11/2009 8:30:34 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(concerned conservative.)
To: Docs Galore
"Most people don't appreciate that the computer on your desk is contributing to global warming and that if its electricity comes from a coal power plant it produces as much C02 as a sports utility vehicle," said Bill St. Arnaud of Canarie, a Canada-based internet development organization. ... "Some studies estimate the internet will be producing 20 percent of the world's greenhouse gases in a decade.
This article .....
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posted on
07/11/2009 8:34:28 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
To: Docs Galore
This article made me feel guilty for destroying the world with my very existence, so to offset the use of my computer to post this reply I am forgoing vacuuming the floors and bathing, and will instead spend the afternoon sitting in a darkened room breathing lightly.
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posted on
07/11/2009 8:47:09 AM PDT
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: Docs Galore
Idiots..don’t they realize that every breath taken by every animal on this planet including humans adds to CO2 to the atmosphere?
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posted on
07/11/2009 9:33:38 AM PDT
by
The Great RJ
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
To: Docs Galore
We need to stop using white backgrounds on this site.
Or at least use compact fluorescent pixels. |
To: The Great RJ
Idiots..don’t they realize that every breath taken by every animal on this planet including humans adds to CO2 to the atmosphere?
Yes, they know. They will be getting to that next!
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