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News John Hirst, Met Office CEO, said in a statement: "In a world where the effect of extreme weather events is becoming more severe and the potential impact of global warming is becoming ever more apparent, the Met Office plays an increasingly vital... [04 Aug 2008]
Working Green: Bottom-line Benefits of Telecommuting and Secure Remote Access
White Paper Growing concern about global warming is spilling into the business world. Companies are exploring the benefits of telecommuting, allowing their employees to work remotely from home. Most importantly, telecommuting boosts disaster recovery. [18 Jul 2008]
Benefits of Green Computing
White Paper Some of that’s related to increasing fears of global warming, the rapid use of irreplaceable resources, or the increase in man-made pollution. Around the world, interest levels in supporting the environment are increasing. [03 Jul 2008]
Use of Energy Efficient Products as a Measure for Responding to Climate Change
White Paper By comparing current and older equipment, the paper shows that small variations in product efficiencies have a greater effect on greenhouse gas creation than do large variations in the global warming potentials of gases used by the equipment. [03 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo See more predictions for global warming here. World-leading climate science from the UK's Met Office Hadley Centre has been used to show global temperatures over the next 100 years given a mid-range projection of greenhouse gas emissions. [30 May 2008]
Photos: Google Earth issues stark climate change warning
Photo Users can pull a slider to advance through the years and show the gradual warming anywhere in the world. The Climate Change in Our World overlay shows that nowhere in the world will escape warming as countries darken from cool blues and light... [22 May 2008]
Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News It seems fitting that after the Met Office helped open the eyes of the world to global warming it is at the forefront of efforts to prevent it. These computational workhorses and their predecessors at the Met Office Hadley Centre crunched through... [09 May 2008]
OSIsoft, Long Used for Performance Measurement, Now Boosts Environmental Sustainability
White Paper The fear of global warming has accelerated interest in carbon footprint reduction, of course, as have government requirements at a variety of levels - from the international Kyoto Protocol to national laws in Europe and elsewhere, to enacted or... [30 Apr 2008]
Data Centers Are Adopting Green Initiatives But Are Wary of Vendors' Marketing Messages
White Paper While the newspaper headlines target the growth of cheap flights as a leading cause of global warming, some commentators have suggested the IT industry is responsible for more carbon emissions than aviation. [26 Apr 2008]
Utilizing Temperature Monitoring to Increase Datacenter Cooling Efficiency
White Paper Looming over the heads of any environmentally conscious company, is the threat of global warming. Considerable effort has been taken to decrease the carbon footprint of the organization through various means: paperless offices, hybrid company cars... [11 Apr 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News Verwaayen also gets credit for leading BT's drive to push climate change up the agenda, calling for government action on global warming and presiding over a shrinking corporate carbon footprint at BT through initiatives such as investing in energy... [08 Apr 2008]
Thin clients the route to skinny emissions?
News Stephen Yeo, strategic director of worldwide marketing for IGEL Technology, claimed that "the thin-client industry has just over 10 per cent of the commercial desktops across Western Europe [and], if that percentage were to rise to 50 per cent, it... [28 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …
Comment The problem is that 'techies' are sufficiently educated to realise that all this 'carbon footprint', 'global warming' talk is just politicians who - having lost control of the populous via religion - have decided to start their own new religion of... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Nokia takes recycling to the next level
Photo Nokia president and CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, rocked up to the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona with a warning about global warming. The current model of development is not sustainable and something has to change, he told the Congress... [19 Feb 2008]
Q&A: Pen Hadow, explorer
Comment I'm not a scientist but I've read more than most people about how climate and global warming has come about and yes I think that it is caused predominately by human activity. The focus of the survey is on a region whose change in response to global... [21 Jan 2008]
