'Carbon cost' of Google revealed

[smkelly13]

Stop googling you're killing the planet...

I average about 50 Google searches when I'm on the internet.

[soda72]

I average about 50 Google searches when I'm on the internet.

off with your head....

 

[texasmom]

Stop googling you're killing the planet...
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7823387.stm

Wonder if it was Microsoft, Yahoo, or Wiki behind prompting that research & report. 

[oakranger]

Absolutely!   Whenever possible I buy grass fed beef.  Here in Indiana we have bison farms and so grass-fed bison isn't too hard to find.  It's amazing what a difference it makes.

[Getback]

I laugh when EPA wanted to tax ranchers for the number of cattle they have. Reason is the methane they released in to the air.  Last time i checked, there where over 80 million bison in North America.  We dont have nearly 5 million cattle in North America. 

Ironically I googled this. There was an estimated 60 to 80 million Bison at one time back int the 1800s or sometime arou0nd that period. Now there is around 350,000 bison on the open range. Which is up from the low 100s. Another site said there were 500,000 bison being raised for food.

The EPA is one of the most abusive agencies. Lot of scandals going on with them.

[Eagler]

maybe we are headed for an ice age and google is actually saving the planet ... who is to say? the ones who will make the most "green" money with their global warming scare tactics???

[MORAY37]

some ppl have way to much time to come up with horse crap like that.  Everything and anything can create Co2.

I laugh when EPA wanted to tax ranchers for the number of cattle they have. Reason is the methane they released in to the air.  Last time i checked, there where over 80 million bison in North America.  We dont have nearly 5 million cattle in North America. 

Wow, talk about a lot of methane right there.  You are so backwards as to be inside your own hindquarters.

As of Summer, 2007 the number of cattle in North America was 120.7 million, with 16 million of that number in Canada. http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/statistics/pdf/uscancattlestatjuly2007.pdf

Bison stock is right around 500,000 animals, right now.  The historical number of 30-70 million was only an educated guess, due to genetic diversity found in the current bison stocks's genome. http://www.bisoncentral.com/bison-reources-information.php?c=14&d=105&a=1064&w=2&r=Y

This means there are currently around TWICE the amount of large hoofstock in North America than was sustained by the continent at any other time.