I admit it.  I frequent social networking sites like Digg.com and Reddit.com.  There’s something about sites that have constantly updated information that’s a draw for me.  Over the weekend, there was an article on Reddit called “does the internet stop people from taking real action because there too busy talking about taking action”.  In a word, yes.  I completely agree with that statement.

While traversing the web, I often find the liberal point-of-view to be the dominating force of discussion.  There are the Bush-haters, the Cheney-haters, the Al-Gore-got-robbed-in-the-2000-election conspiracy nuts, the blame-Bush-for-a-fascist-America people and the environmentalists.  And these children and grandchildren of the Sixties flower power generation are mostly content with their lives except they like to point out how they would run the country if enabled.  The only problem is that they’re all talk and no action.

According to this Wikipedia article, only 7% of the world’s energy consumed in 2004 was from renewable sources.  In a Gallup poll taken in 2004, 51% of respondents said they believed that global warming had already begun.  Just to give the benefit of the doubt, let’s say all 7% of the renewable energy consumed in 2004 was by the 51% who believed global warming had already begun in 2004.  That still leaves a lot of power being used by environmentalists who believe global warming is happening.

So there are a bunch of whiny global warming folks out there that have their computers revved up just to get on the internet and complain about global warming.  While this behavior is typical of the left-leaning environmentalists, like the jet-setting liberals who fly their personal jets instead of flying commercial, you can really dive into this issue to see how much energy is really being wasted by these self-identified environmentalists.  There’s the power to the computer, the power to the router and/or modem, the power at the dial-up/cable/DSL facility, the power used to run the dial-up/cable/DSL’s routers and switches, the power used to run the switches and routers at various hops along the way to the destination, and the power used to run the routers, switches, servers, backup drives and climate control at the destination web page. 

Seems like an awful lot of power is used just to get on the internet to tout your concerns about global warming.  How about this, as one commenter on Digg.com recently posted:  just turn off your computer.  The armchair environmentalists are no better than the jet-setting greenies.  They bemoan the coming crisis all because of anthropogenic global warming, but do little to contribute to their cause.  They are the dictators and it’s the skeptics of global warming that are the true targets.  If I suddenly believe in global warming like all the rest, can I emit as much carbon as the rest of the original believers?  And will they still respect me in the morning?  Source