Y2Kyoto: An Internet Search Goes Horribly Wrong

I already went on a long rant at The Phantom's blog when I read about this, so I'll be slightly more succinct here:

Good.

So Greenpeace is going to turf its website? The Goracle is going to apologize for inventing the internet? ... and I'm reminded of the story of "The Pencil" it's likely that most in the SDA Nation have seen this already, but here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ERbC7JyCfU

Now I don't feel as bad when I work from home using the interwebs instead of driving 25K into work. I'm still making my contribution to the cause - yay.

I blame the U.N. - they just declared internet access a "human right."

I think that Google and Apple should move their data centres to Saskatoon! Nine months of computer cooling just by opening the window; or better still... trap this heat and heat Saskatoon homes..

problem Solved; and when I make my next trip to the Maldives I wont need snorkel gear to check in to the hotel..\

Problem solved. Just hold your breath whenever you hit the search button.

I hate repeating myself but my link in yesterday's Poley Bare is still relevant here.

For bonus points on the assignment compare and contrast 10 grams of carbon with the subject matter in the video.

http://unclemeat.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/west-gets-suckered-for-climate-aid-golf-course/

NorthernLight: "I think that Google and Apple should move their data centres to Saskatoon! Nine months of computer cooling just by opening the window"

That's good +1

Ah the Maldives, are they still there? I recall the story of a tree that stood at waters edge in the Maldives. It had been there scores of years. The 'Earth is going to Die' crowd could see the water wasn't gaining on the tree as the oceans rose. That was before bambam stopped the rise of the oceans so the evirowackos cut down the tree.

Makes me want to send my monthly ISP bill to Al Gore so he van pay it.

That way he can accept responsibility for his crime.

So... every time I m*sturbate, someone out in Micronesia drowns?

I was at the salesforce convention in San fran last december and one of the presenters (mark Benioff) did a very brief presentation on how their software as a service / cloud system saved energy compared to mainframe oracle-style systems. At first glance it seemed like a small thing, but the volume of data that some of these large corporations move around is immense and in the aggregate significant money and energy is saved using the cloud (arguably. The cost of maintaining the wires to and from the cloud was not included if I recall correctly)

That said, a company like Dell could probably save more energy and money and do more to keep the Maldives afloat if it just made sure all of its employees kept their cars tires properly inflated.

Are some people totally loosing their grip on sanity?

"Problem solved. Just hold your breath whenever you hit the search button."

Yes I wish a lot of journalists (and greens) would just hold their breath.

I'd like to help, I have plastic bags from the dry cleaners.

Seriously, does EVERY SINGLE THING have to be couched as climate change? I'm all for energy savings - that's good thing - but give the climate change thing a rest already.

Aside from which in this case I'm sure those searches saved time/energy and wasted effort.

Of course they want to ban the Internet, People can find out the truth and that does not bode well for their leftist agenda

Oh man..... go back and read some of the comments ... they are all trashing the story and many with great humor ...

I think we have won this thing,

Best comment:

"Al Gore invented the internet so it can't be bad."

What to believe....hmmmmm

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

∗The United Nations has proposed that Internet access should be a human right.

I'll wait to see what The Onion has to say about it before I make up my mind.

The Greenies won't be happy till the remaining few humans are living naked in the forest and licking lichen off rocks.

Excuse me but I need to go chop down a tree to have wood to burn this evening, the temp is expected to go down to +6C. This global warming is sweltering, isn't it.

Ah the Maldives, are they still there? I recall the story of a tree that stood at waters edge in the Maldives. It had been there scores of years.
~Speedy

Maldives tree that Speedy refers to.

http://tinyurl.com/6yttco9

In light of this new emergency,it's time for the Government to take action,and limit internet users to 10 searches or posts per day.

Think of the bureaucracy they could build in Quebec to oversee the 'net!

They'd love us and would NEVER even consider separation.

I still have nine left,hmmm,what to do......

Are some people totally loosing their grip on sanity?
Posted by: Ken (Kulak) at June 7, 2011 9:53 AM

Yes.

Oh man..... go back and read some of the comments ... they are all trashing the story and many with great humor ...

I think we have won this thing,
Posted by: Abe Froman at June 7, 2011 10:21 AM

There are numerous posts from the kool-ade drinkers from my brief perusal. We have some work yet.

Lengthy, but worthwhile read for all AGW skeptics:

http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html

Just in case it is killing the planet, I promise to never read the Vancouver Sun online again.

Speaking of sinking islands, ecochondriac Cate Blanchett is rumoured to have bought property on Vanuatu. If true, you'd think that those who say it's a crisis would act like it's a crisis.

"due to the server industry's dependence on coal-fired electricity."

Porn from coal.....it is the age of miracles.

This will become another way to control and censor information. News or information that is not carried by the green net will be discredited. However everything on the green net will be 110 percent true.

My home office computer has an 850 watt power supply. Why 850 watts? Because I couldn't find a 1200 watt model. I changed out all my twisty, enviro-commie light bulbs to incandescents and pick up at least half a dozen extra packages of these every second trip to Home Depot and hoard them in the basement.

So it's good to hack off bird heads with trendy wind mills, but drilling for oil is bad......OK

I recall a while back seeing a picture of artic bears stretched out on top of a an oil pipeline enjoying the sun. Another shot showed caribou eating grass on the tundra with an oil/natural gas facility in the near background.

I think the enviromnetalists should all be culled in the interest of saving the planet.

Media Climate Porn is known to cause unnecessary stress and anxiety - our children are especially vulnerable.

More CO2 is mostly beneficial with very little downside.

Stop man made climate alarmism. Do it for the children.

Re Eskimo's comment: a cull on environmentalists is a good idea. They can be recycled as fertiliser.

Oil spills, up to a point, are good for the land, especially if as in much of Newfoundland it is nutrient poor. BTW the standard treatment for soil "polluted" with oil is to scrape it up, place it in a field, and seed with petroleum-attacking bacteria. It should be worked occasionally; but after a few months the result is high-quality topsoil

As for the Maldives, they stubbornly refuse to submerge. Over thirty years ago, when I came to St. John's, I believed in global warming, and believed the predictions that the seas would rise. The harbour area at that time was a mess, and drowning it under a metre of water seemed a good thing.

The sea level has not, however, risen; not more than an inch, if that. The harbour area has been cleaned up and is quite presentable now, no thanks to global warming.

Between ET and myself I think we've done for at least half the Maldives. And that's just this week. :)

Alyric indeed had some fine commentary over at the Soapbox. I don't think the Lefties really get what kind of people with what kind of intellectual resources they have collectively p1ssed off these last 30 years.

But they might be starting to.

I need motivation to sink Maldives. Maybe if Al Gore and David Suzuki were tied to a boat anchor on the beach I would try really hard.

We've got to sink the Maldives, 'cause the world depends on us!

I loved the comments on her absurd story. People have caught on to the BS. I especially like the guy who wanted all people to die. Good satire.

I often use the Maldives to explain climate BS to the eco-elites.

My theory,based on my own observations,is that rises at the same rate. If the water around the Islamic Maldives is rising,then all the islands and land mass that are in that water system would also be experiencing the same. They are not.

Therefore,it is either a really weird climate phenomena,or more likely the people that are asking for money to combat this 'climate crisis' are full of hooey.

The usual response is not complimentary.

"I blame the U.N. - they just declared internet access a 'human right.'
Posted by: Mississauga Matt at June 7, 2011 8:08 AM"

I'm planning on crashing the next U.N. Green Summit. I'll be at the back, close to my heroine Elizabeth (may her tribe increase), holding high my crayoned paper poster boldly stating for the world leaders and their laptopped underlings to see and heed, "Save the Planet, Stop the Internet!"

Not one of the greenies, no matter how fervent an environmentalist, is going to give up his/her electronic toysl

Climate Porn. Good one Kate. That's the best description for the tripe in the news article.

As Revenant Dream said above, looks like people have twigged to the scam. Nearly every comment is harshly critical of the author, his newspaper and the scam itself.