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- spling, on 10/12/2007, -4/+72AMAZING: GOOGLE creates NEW LOGO for Earth Day! [PIC]
- piratesarefun, on 10/12/2007, -7/+37good thing you submitted this to digg... noone could have seen it on the google home page or anything like that
- teddyrux, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31Profit!
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30This could've gotten many more diggs if you had sensationalized the title a little bit.
- digid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15@thinkbox
maybe you should research how lcds block the backlight to create black. - digid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17black requires more power on lcd... crt on the other hand... well who uses crt anymore
If anything they need to cut down their energy consumption from their server farms - aptmunich, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Hey, think about how many gallons of oil they're helping to save with Google maps!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13@aussieNickuss
He posted the link to the image, because he knew it'd eventually be taken off of the front page. - piratesarefun, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12http://hell.com/xit.html
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Global warming was an inside job. I blame Bush.
- jlebrech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Can't wait to help out when overpopulation is a problem!
- TheWalkingDude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's a little weak, but they don't display that in every country. It was news to me.
Louis Braille's Birthday is still one of my favorites: http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html - coit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'm burying this as inaccurate, since everyone knows at least 75% of an iceberg's mass is underwater. This logo obviously would not float upright as it is depicted....
- qforq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Google is trying to cut down on their power consumption. For one, they operate their servers off of power supplied by a hydro-electric dam. There was a little story about it on Saturday's special on the Discovery Channel
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Pixels in LCDs require a small amount of voltage to flip perpendicularly to block the light. So, theoretically.. dark screens would probably require a minuscule amount more energy than light screens on lcd monitors.
(in other words, digid is right, thinkbox is both arrogant and wrong) - diggdong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Save the planet, bookmark your web listings.
- Ulisses, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8I'd bury.
People really need to stop acting like 13 year-olds on the internet... - orlyfactor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Wow they're celebrating Earth Day by making their logo look like an iceberg. If that's not a celebration of Earth Day, I don't know what is. Environmental groups can really learn a lot from their logo.
- psionicman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm more excited about helping out in any eventual underpopulation scenarios...
- HUKI365, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Or "theme"-ed home pages.
- dawger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5No, that would be the internet.
- mos6507, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I went to an Earth Day festival here in southern california. Now I did get a biodegradable planter made out of a newspaper. That made sense. But they had games kind of like chuck e cheese where you redeem tickets at the end. So they were giving out some of the cheapest made-in-china landfill-magnets you can imagine. My daughter got a Rubik's cube that was so stiff it felt like it was lubricated with sandpaper and the instructions on the back were riddled with typos. I just thought that was a little ironic considering how our disposable consumerist Wal Mart culture is part and parcel of our environmental problems.
- angryredplanet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Tetrabiblos
I think the texts you have read assert "all things being equal" i.e. left to it's own devices - and that's very true, however misleading. All things are not equal and humanity is rapidly changing the landscape (at an increasing rate), which fuels the processes of climate change.
I personally know environmental scientists (my university drinking buddies :-) ) who have studied this and have proposed plans for various government departments and oversight bodies, only to have them casually tossed out as they trade-off too heavily with our economic growth. Sound familiar? Each of these guys talk of a grim future if we continue down the path we are following. This is scientifically backed and grounded in observation.
The truth is we are observing dramatic changes now. This correlates with increasing CO2 emission from all continents over the last 100 years. I understand that correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation, however the observations are telling us that these changes are happening a lot faster that the 100's or 1,000,000's of years you have suggested as reasonable time frames. We can do one of three things: Proactively fix it before it fixes us, sit on the fence or discredit and ignore it. In essence, we don't value the very things that support our life: forests, land, water and atmosphere. We do value that which does not: money, power and materialism. It is us who need to change our ways of old. - Zuggy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3And how many server farms does Google have?
- stugster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I thought the logo was related to Titanic...
Google going to grind up against the hull and take us all down? - SilentSpyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Better safe than sorry.
- booozeninja, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Then Google should concentrate on building greener data centers. A google data center uses up as much juice as a medium sized town. Typical google, "do as i say not as i do"
- Speed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Canada signed Kyoto, but Harper has decided that we will not follow it.
- BigSlacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hydro-electric damns have huge environmental impact. They should go nuclear if they want to be environmentally neutral.
- Darkside2984, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Looking forward to 2012 when Al Gore brings out his sequel which will warn of the global cooling. Also I will be setting up a paypal so that everyone can put money into me attempting to warm up the planet, despite all science to the contrary. Off to burn some old McDonald's foam containers....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Awesome! Don't forget to open up as many soda cans and bottles as you can, release all that CO2!
- returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Power consumption is not the problem. The source of that power is what matters.
- specialK16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I still use a CRT monitor... do you have a problem with that?
- aussieNickuss, on 10/12/2007, -13/+13What a useful link....it goes straight to the Google logo. Here is a more useful link which the logo was actually made for.......http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=Earth+Day&btnG=Google+Search&meta=.
- CrazedGeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow#Science_analysis_and_criticism
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@piratesarefun:
People in different countries couldn't see it.
People who didn't go to google on Earthday didn't see it (since it is now gone)
People who use firefox didn't see it: 1. Firefox's google page is different, which most people don't even use. There's a google search bar in Firefox, and 2. The picture in the top left corner was small, and I honestly didn't even notice it. - Yokohamalion, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7When I was a kid "they" told us another ice age was on the way. Forgive me for being a skeptic of "global warming".
- BigSlacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yea, but wasn't Carter in office when it started? I blame Carter.
- BigSlacker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Sorry, but the only solution is to hand all your freedom over to the government. It's for the good of the planet that a few hundred elitist decide everything.
- noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Wow, great story!!!
:| - autoboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No, global warming exists. You can prove that scientifically, but I have a hard time believing that CO2 is what is causing it when there is a huge ball of fire in the sky called the sun that changes every day. Anyone stop to think that CO2 increasing is caused by global warming?
- angryredplanet, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4@aegisgfx
I'm ashamed to say that Australia is the other country who hasn't signed onto the Kyoto protocol. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1We just see the tip of ice-berg. More to come from google!
- hasansexy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0mirror just in case the site goes down: http://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Global warming is caused by all the ***** spit out by the tree hugging left because Global cooling didn't happen. We're supposed to be in the middle of cataclysmic ice age right now. Uh huh...yep...really hit a home run with that prediction. Is there a chance that global warming is a NATURAL event caused by, oh I dunno...THE SUN maybe? I mean the Earth did seem to warm up enough on it's own, without the evils of mankind, and end the last ice age. Isn't Mars going through some sort of global warming also? And that's without man's interference AND only a third of our atmosphere. Or is it easier to blame Bush? So what if the Kyoto accords were ***** too?
- MistressDee, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1The logo presents about as much of a scientific sense of reality as most of the howling "one-cause-only, kill all humans, hug Al Gore" global wamining fanatic's facts.. there's more of the logo above the water line than below- (only about 11 percent of an iceberg is above the water....)
- NiX0n, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6Buried as Inaccurate.
Google celebrating earth day has nothing to do with Global Warming.
There's no such thing as Global Warming anyways. Google could likely prove that too. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5Global Warming seems to be an "America Only" problem.
Every other country and signed Kyoto, and even China has higher emissions standards for automobiles...
Clean up your act USA, the rest of us have. - Piotr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Global warming ? That's something Al Gore invented, right ?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0you know what will help? use black google.
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