Wow flip flopper: Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Expanded Internet use to worsen global warming: Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Internet the solution to global warming:

The Register reports:

Getting back to climate change, Schmidt said, “The framing goes something like this: there’s a real problem. The math doesn’t work. The solution is the use of the internet to create an awareness and empower individuals. You empower those individuals to come up with creative solutions.”

Those solutions, he said, should be focused on “not making the climatic situation worse” while improving people’s lives.

“It’s not that complicated,” Schmidt said. “I think that it’s an opportunity that, working with Google and others, we can get these messages out.”

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Expanded Internet use to worsen global warming

The Register reports:

Including himself among the assembled Real Smart People™, he said, “That’s what we do. That’s our job. That’s why what you all are doing is so important.”
And that pesky carbon problem is only going to get bigger, Schmidt said, as internet use increases and data centers will need to be built to service the five to six billion internet users that he says will occupy the planet in the next decade or so.
“The majority of humans will be on the internet,” he said.

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