Look - I get it. There is a world conference on Anthropogenic Global Warming being held in Paris now and all the players are showing up with their grubby little hands out for money.
This is ludicrous - from Agence France Presse:
What's the carbon footprint of an email?
A long list of seemingly harmless everyday actions contribute to emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other climate-altering greenhouse gases.
Driving a car and flipping a light switch have a clear "carbon footprint" -- much less obvious is the harm caused by sending a simple text message or opening a bottle of water.
Here is the environmental impact of some common activities:
Digital footprint
Sending even a short email is estimated to add about four grammes (0.14 ounces) of CO2 equivalent (gCO2e) to the atmosphere.
To put this into perspective, the carbon output of hitting "send" on 65 mails is on par with driving an average-sized car a kilometre (0.6 of a mile).
The culprits are greenhouse gases produced in running the computer, server and routers but also those emitted when the equipment was manufactured.
Much more at the site. Two things come to mind:
#1) - AFP is going to see the error of their ways and voluntarily close up shop. We only need a few mouthpieces for the liberal party anyway so all media will shut down except for the New York Times (America's Newspaper of Record - remember when that was actually true? Been a while....) and the Daily KOS (or Huffington Post or whatever).
#2) - If they want to continue operation, why not follow the lead of the Russians and use nuclear power to run their datacenters. France already gets 70% of its electricity from nuke and they have an excellent safety record. Why not go all-in and go 100% nuke. No appreciable CO2 from these...
What will it take to get these navel-gazing morons to realize that we are a) - entering a cold period and that b) - CO2 is literally the Gas of Life. Talk about stunningly bad science.
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