Google is bad for the environment

I'm not giving up smoking. The Internet is going to kill me anyway. Telegraph.co.uk:

Making two internet searches through Google produces about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle, it has been estimated.

A typical search through the online giant's website is thought to generate about 7g of carbon dioxide. Boiling a kettle produces about 15g.

The emissions are caused both by the electricity required to power a user's computer and send their request to servers around the world.

Dr Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist from Harvard University who is leading research into the subject, has estimated that browsing a basic website generates about 0.02g of CO2 for every second it is viewed. Websites with complex video can be responsible for up to 0.2 g per second, he believes.