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First "Carbon-Free" CPU Fights Global Warming
An anonymous reader writes "VIA is doing its bit to fight Global Warming by introducing the 'world's first carbon-free' desktop PC processor. The RoHS-compliant C7-D consumes 20W at 1.8GHz, and is accompanied by a 'Clean Computing Initiative' that aims to offset the chip's environmental cost. According to a LinuxDevices report, VIA has pledged that atmospheric carbon released during generation of the power needed to run the chip throughout its expected life-cycle will be offset by regional conservation, reforestation, and energy programs initiated or contributed to by VIA."
Most Environmentalists are socialist types. They hate the fact that we are not all "sacrificing for the greater good." Global warming is just another form of political correctness, where if you say anything against it you get shouted down by bitter people who want to control other people. It's the left's equivalent of the church lady. Kyoto was just a way for socialist countries to control us.
We are no longer in an ice age, so of course global warming is real. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the glaciers have been slowly melting for the past 10,000 years. Has it been sped up? I don't think anyone thought that the warming that has taken place on average for the past 10,000 years has always been linear. Are we contributing? Yes, we breathe out CO2. We have not had a good world war in about 50 years to cut down on the population. Fortunately, plants love CO2. We have more plants than we've ever had, and some more will soon spring up from the melting permafrost and ice caps. Of course, we've recently found that it is possible that live plants are giving off methane, a greenhouse gas. Animals give off CO2 and methane too. In fact, it's probably a good thing we aren't driving around in horse and buggy any more, as I think those horses were aweful polluters. You don't think that their waste got into the ground water?
Water vapor is also a huge greenhouse 'gas'. The more the ice caps melt, the more water vapor gets into the atmosphere and the more stored methane and CO2 get into the atmosphere. There's probably not a whole lot we tiny humans can (or should) do about it. We can try to "use as much as we lose" and keep balance, but that's just common sense. We don't need some bitter activist, some welfare scientist, or some corrupt U.N. "Hall of Justice League" to tell us that.