Revealed: the [alleged] environmental impact of Google searches - Times Online

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.”

Google is secretive about its energy consumption and carbon footprint. It also refuses to divulge the locations of its data centres.

Celestial Junk: It's Not Climate: It's a Stock Chart

If warmists want to hold up 1998 as some sort of banner for warming, it is only logical that the 2008-09 winter and possibly the ones to follow, be treated the same ... and be held up as banners for global cooling. If warmists want to treat global warming like a stock chart, which they do, then highs and lows become critical, especially when evaluating average earth temperatures.

I declare, therefore, that 1998 was a peak within the cycle ... and that since then the trend has been flat. 2008 though, saw downward resistance broken, and testing the next line of resistance at 0.2. The planet, folks, may be signalling a Bear Market, but you'll have to stick around a few more decades to get confirmation.

Don't throw away leftovers, warn "food police" - Telegraph

Home cooks will also be told what size portions to prepare, taught to understand "best before" dates and urged to make more use of their freezers.

The door-to-door campaign, which starts tomorrow, will be funded by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), a Government agency charged with reducing household waste.

The officials will be called "food champions". However, they were dismissed last night as "food police" by critics who called the scheme an example of "excessive government nannying".
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Tim Burns, from Waste Watch - the contractor carrying out the scheme for WRAP - said: "Food waste has such a high impact on climate change and it is something we can all do something about."