Did you know that you're causing global warming just by reading this article on your computer screen?
Or that a medium-sized server has the same annual carbon footprint of an SUV that gets 15 miles to the gallon?
Well, shame on you for not being aware of just how harmful to the environment your laptop is, because according to an English environmental organization called Global Action Plan, the Information and Computer Technology industry is about to surpass the aviation industry in annual carbon dioxide emissions.
I kid you not.
Here are some of the highlights of this organization's paper on the matter entitled "An Inefficient Truth":
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- Gartner, the ICT research and advisory company, estimates that the manufacture of ICT equipment, its use and disposal accounts for 2% of global CO2 emissions which is equivalent to the aviation industry
- Servers and data centres have become integral to business but as the size and capacity of these servers increase, so too does the energy consumed by them
- The intensive power requirements needed to run and cool data centres now account for around a quarter of the ICT sector's CO2 emissions
- It is estimated that a medium-sized server has roughly the same annual carbon footprint as an SUV vehicle doing 15 miles per gallon
- The manufacturing process for computers is very energy intensive. A recent study at the United Nations University in Tokyo found that most electrical products consume around 95% of lifecycle fossil fuels when in use; however, 75% of PC fossil fuel consumption has already happened before the computer is even switched on for the first time
- Furthermore, the study found that the manufacture of one PC requires about 1.7 tonnes of raw materials and water, and consumes over ten times the computer's weight in fossil fuels.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
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Wait! Don't panic!
December 4, 2007 - 18:34 ET by MidAmericaWait! Don't panic! There's an easy solution to this. We just put taxes on all these computers! That will solve the problem. It's brilliant!
Wow! Sounds
December 4, 2007 - 18:51 ET by jdhawkWow! Sounds like Armegeddon!
But, before we all dive off a cliff like lemmings, let's start with what air is made of:
Dry air is primarily made up of nitrogen (78.09%) and oxygen (20.95%). The remaining 1% is made up of argon (0.93%), carbon dioxide (0.03%) and other trace gases (0.003%). Water vapor (water in its gaseous state) is also present in air in varying amounts.
So, of all the ingredients that make up air, C02 makes up only .03%. That's only 38 out of every 100,000 molecules of air are carbon dioxide.
What part of .03% is contributed by man? Mankind's addition of more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is only one molecule of CO2 for every 100,000 molecules of air every 5 years!
See the article here for the full explanation: http://www.weatherquestions.com/Roy-Spencer-on-global-warming.htm .
Their paper is inconvenient
December 4, 2007 - 18:35 ET by goldboughThey make a pdf with flashy colors and waste their server space with that download when they could just make it text. These people should make one last posting and turn off all their servers and computers to do their part. I don't think that will happen...
But what about the trees
December 4, 2007 - 20:33 ET by red_dragon311they can't use text....do you have any idea how many trees would be slaughtered in the making of the paper to print that document....wait....printing takes a computer.....scratch that.....handwriten
will ever stop
But what about the trees
December 4, 2007 - 20:33 ET by red_dragon311they can't use text....do you have any idea how many trees would be slaughtered in the making of the paper to print that document....wait....printing takes a computer.....scratch that.....handwriten
will ever stop
Do "right wing blog sites"
December 4, 2007 - 18:38 ET by Chris NormanDo "right wing blog sites" cause even greater global warming? Because that's next.
I keep telling the true
December 4, 2007 - 18:51 ET by danboI keep telling the true AGW believers thay should turn off their Computers, stop drinking any wine, beer or soft drinks. But they never listen. Instead they lecture me. And I know AGW is a fraud.
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT
Can't see the forest through the trees
December 4, 2007 - 19:59 ET by dboLet's see. 1934, the warmest year on record. 2.1 billion people, no SUV'S, no computers. Do these AGW idiots ever stop disproving their own theory.
Noel...it is all clear now
December 4, 2007 - 20:04 ET by LionKingAl Gore is responsible for Global Warming:
Further more, people who
December 4, 2007 - 20:36 ET by Sonny LykosFurther more, people who exercise, be it at home on a treadmill, or jogging or biking, should immediately stop. Don't they realize that all of that expended energy is transfered into "body heat" that rises into the air that also contribute to GW.
And Oh! No more sex either, for the same reason.
Global Warming is The Lie That Keeps On Giving !
December 4, 2007 - 20:48 ET by Free StinkerGlobal Warming is The Lie That Keeps On Giving !
Thanks to The Great Global Warming Lie:
Thousands of years ago, the
December 4, 2007 - 21:12 ET by JerryThousands of years ago, the Sunlings were the first race to invent computers. By the time the solar ice caps had melted, it was too late for the Sunlings to reverse the horrible effects of Glowbal Warming. Hopefully, we can learn from this proud race, and nip this internet inferno in the bud. Turn them off... shut them down now, before it's too late.
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
Problem solved. Find a way
December 4, 2007 - 21:51 ET by nicksmith112Problem solved. Find a way to make a "green" server like they make "green" SUV's...(wink wink)
By green suv's I mean the hybrid SUV's that get a measly 33 mpg that allow the loons on the left to tool around town carrying no passengers guilt free!
I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.
Lefties are never guilt
December 5, 2007 - 04:40 ET by lnthompLefties are never guilt free... They just assign their guilt to some other cause, and continually hunt for other people who they can make pay for their guilt.
Lee T.
U.S. Navy (ret.) / Vancouver, Washington
The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.-- Mark Twain
not only that but Chanukah
December 4, 2007 - 22:08 ET by botgcandles, and well come to think of it;
Don't most of those smelly stores the enviro wackos support sell tons of candles? Enough we must rid the green stores of candles
"everytime you take a shower you are a mass murder" -- the Profff
just wait until I build my
December 5, 2007 - 10:20 ET by pwozjust wait until I build my next computer... that thing will drain more power than Al Gore's mansion... muhahahhaha