I just wrote: Article quotes both figures from Alex Wissner-Gross (7g) and from Google > (0.2g). Seeing as both figures are being widely circulated, and talked about > elsewhere, I'd say that it's definitely newsworthy. >
Incidentally, the news story mentions that Alex Wissner-Gross, who calculated the figures, has set up the website http://www.co2stats.com/which is a *commercial* service that allows you to pay to offset the carbon produced by your webservers, so call me cynical, but he perhaps has a vested interest in talking up the carbon costs of the web... Amongsts the 'benefits' of his service (http://www.co2stats.com/benefits.php), he even lists 'increase the time your visitors and customers spend on your website' (err, how does that reduce carbon footprint) and 'get link traffic from other green websites' (at best this is useless, at worst it's a link farm). Frankie -- Frankie Roberto Experience Designer, Rattle 0114 2706977 http://www.rattlecentral.com
