New Websites Can Be .Eco Logical

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New Websites Can Be .Eco Logical

Al Gore, the "inventor" [http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp] of the Internet is backing the creation of a new domain name for ecologically friendly sites.

The new domain name, .eco, will be used to host sites that support enviromental causes.

Dot Eco, the firm founding the idea, has applied to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to make the .eco domains viable by late 2009.

"We fully support Dot Eco in its efforts to secure the .eco top level domain through the ICANN application and look forward to working with them to promote .eco," said former vice president Al Gore, "This is a truly exciting opportunity for the environmental movement and for the internet as a whole."

The firm also hopes to channel all the revenues from registration into researching climate change as well as other issues resulting from environmental conditions.

Source: BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7927812.stm]

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[RetiarySword]

I think its a noble idea. Well done to him. People say he is a nut and a hippi but if you listen to him he makes alot of sense.

 

[Cousin_IT]

guys just humour him, I dont think he has any friends

 

[Frizzle]

This has got to be the biggest waste in a long time. Nothing good is even stated to come from this. Researching climate change? We know it's changing, and there's nothing we can do about it. The only companies that will take this .eco thing will be the ones that are already super "green" (how I loathe that word).

I definately think they should be taking this money and researching ways to lessen or reverse the impact of chemical wastes on the planet. We destroy untold numbers of plants and animals just from dumping every day goods, not to mention things from factories. This is such a politically motivated waste.

 

[HomeAliveIn45]

Researching climate change? We know it's changing, and there's nothing we can do about it.

I think the 'research' is one to find the causes and problems associated with climate change, so we can better understand it and help prevent it in the future.

 

[Frizzle]

Researching climate change? We know it's changing, and there's nothing we can do about it.

I think the 'research' is one to find the causes and problems associated with climate change, so we can better understand it and help prevent it in the future.

But the climate always changes, and it always has. It's very self centered (i don't mean you) to think that us lowly humans can do something on that grand of a scale in a *posotive* way.
If you prevent climate change, then you stagnate it. Doing that causes all species to become stagnant as well. All in all, it's a bad thing for the world. In a never changing climate, disease will win over healthy beings.

That's not a rant at you, just in general. We're part of an ever-changing world. We need to accept that and make the best of the time we get to occupy it.

 

[HomeAliveIn45]

But the climate always changes, and it always has. It's very self centered (i don't mean you) to think that us lowly humans can do something on that grand of a scale in a *posotive* way.

Totally agree with you that it's always changed (in an up and down trend). But never quite like this:

And you gotta take some pride in the human race! There's almost 7 billion of us now. We aren't a lowly species anymore. We've gone to the fu@&ing moon! How many species can claim that? If we can mess with our own DNA and split atoms, whose to say we're too insignificant to mess with the atmosphere?
Or I'm completely wrong and just fear mongering.

 

[RogueDarkJedi]

Yes, this is a great idea. Now we can identify these environmental websites so they can be ignored x10 times faster. Woo!

 

[Frizzle]

But the climate always changes, and it always has. It's very self centered (i don't mean you) to think that us lowly humans can do something on that grand of a scale in a *posotive* way.

Totally agree with you that it's always changed (in an up and down trend). But never quite like this: *snip image*
And you gotta take some pride in the human race! There's almost 7 billion of us now. We aren't a lowly species anymore. We've gone to the fu@&ing moon! How many species can claim that? If we can mess with our own DNA and split atoms, whose to say we're too insignificant to mess with the atmosphere?
Or I'm completely wrong and just fear mongering.

I hate graphs like that haha. Basically i've looked a lot of the stuff he presents, as well as data from others, and you really have to be careful what they're showing you. As an example to compare, look at the second graph from the top here:

Looks like the tempurature is high doesn't it? Then you look at the left side of the graph, and see the temperature anomolies are actually more negative (temperature wise) than posotive. We just happen to bein in an, as you say, "up .... trend".

I'm not denying the fact that temperatures are rising consistantly as time goes on. They most likely are, and will continue to do so. But we have to remember that the earth goes in cycles. Volcanos erupt, spewing tons of gas into the air. Cows fart constantly, and they're no help either! I am a firm believer that we're making a neglegable difference in the earths atmosphere.

One last thing to remember is that we have no way of knowing the actual temperatures before what.. 150 years ago? We didn't have thermometers, or cool graphing machines. Hell, we probably didn't even care about how the climate was changing back then.

As for the last part of your statement, I was probably wrong in calling us lowly. We have gone to the moon, and that is indeed a great feat. I'm not saying we can't mess with the atmosphere successfully, I'm saying that I don't see us doing it in a posotive way.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

GLOBAL WARMING - Which is actually code for catastrophic global warming due to man-made CO2 emmissions - Here's a news flash:

ITS ALL BULLSHIT.

WHAT ON EARTH IS THIS WEBSITE PROMOTING AL GORE FOR?

Ok, no more sugar for you.

 

[Nivag the Owl]

How can some websites be more eco-friendly than others? Just kidding, I think its a great idea to be honest.

EDIT: Also, who are we to contest Al Gore, he's ridden the mighty moon worm.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

god = al gore...

Fixed for you.

We Must All Stop Manbearpig

 

[KaZZaP]

One last thing to remember is that we have no way of knowing the actual temperatures before what... 150 years ago

Actually by taking samples of air bubbles trapped deep in arctic ice they can find out the exact temperature it was thousands of years ago. I have no idea how but I am not a scientist.

 

[GyroCaptain]

Actually by taking samples of air bubbles trapped deep in arctic ice they can find out the exact temperature it was thousands of years ago. I have no idea how but I am not a scientist.

The density and size of bubbles would both be affected by temperature: there will be fewer and smaller air bubbles if the water is colder when freezing. Doesn't water freeze at 0 C? No, when you're dealing with salt water ice will come out of it at different rates depending on salt content and, again, temperature.

If you look at Frizzle's post again, it has the data for >150 years ago based on that in the graphs he posted, the trick is that NONE of it is as exact as you think it is. What he meant is that all that is before thermometers; the rest HAS to be conjecture based on observational theory.

 

[GyroCaptain]

Al Gore had an impressive idea again! (It's a stupid, pointless, and bizarre idea, but it's impressive.)
Who's with me to found the first porn site on .eco? It'll have to be 'green' porn, of course.

OR not.

 

[D_987]

Al Gore had an impressive idea again! (It's a stupid, pointless, and bizarre idea, but it's impressive.)
Who's with me to found the first porn site on .eco? It'll have to be 'green' porn, of course.

OR not.

Tree on Tree action...riviting...

 

[GyroCaptain]

Al Gore had an impressive idea again! (It's a stupid, pointless, and bizarre idea, but it's impressive.)
Who's with me to found the first porn site on .eco? It'll have to be 'green' porn, of course.

OR not.

Tree on Tree action...riviting...

Serious rooting, digging in. Anything in film form would have to be sappier than usual, and there'd be some impressive wood on display...

I'll stop now.