{"id":1228,"date":"2008-03-21T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/03\/21\/google-causes-global-warming\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T17:31:00","slug":"google-causes-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/03\/21\/google-causes-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Causes Global Warming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Robert Zubrin visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/talks\/authors\/index.html\">Authors@Google<\/a> last Monday to talk about his latest book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1591025915\/curtiscchensfree\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Skip to the 40-minute mark in the video below to see the controversial slide which prompts an inevitable flood of pointed questions from the audience.  As the saying goes, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NLRuGUPkyh4&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NLRuGUPkyh4&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The complete, in-context quote from Dr. Zubrin is:  &#8220;The same argument could be made that <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Google<\/span> causes global warming&#8230; by your spreading of information, which contributes to economic growth&#8230; and, in fact, much <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">more<\/span> global warming than the corn ethanol program, I daresay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=0553585819\/curtiscchensfree\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Fifty Degrees Below<\/span><\/a>, the second book in Kim Stanley Robinson&#8217;s &#8220;climate trilogy,&#8221; and though I&#8217;m enjoying it, the information seems even more densely packed than in his science-packed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mars_trilogy\">Mars trilogy<\/a>.  Maybe that&#8217;s because the &#8220;climate&#8221; books are set closer to the present day, and therefore all the political and social situations resonate and feel that much more real.  Every detail implies a multitude of other things I&#8217;m already familiar with, instead of causing me to speculate on what a future society might be like.<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Robert Zubrin visited Authors@Google last Monday to talk about his latest book, Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil. Skip to the 40-minute mark in the video below to see the controversial slide which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[25,32,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sci-tech","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}