Al Gore, John Chambers to discuss climate change

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers is joining the virtual stage with Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore on Wednesday morning to talk about climate change and technology innovation.

Al Gore

Chambers and Gore will use Cisco's telepresence system to communicate with a live audience at the VoiceCon trade show in in Orlando, Fla. They will discuss how unified communications technology, like the telepresence platform, can play a role in reducing carbon emissions, which are impacting climate change.

John Chambers

They'll also discuss other ideas for how businesses can reduce greenhouse gas emissions through innovative technologies and how the technology industry can create a sustainable model for addressing climate change.

The event will be Webcast live starting at 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT. And anyone interested in tuning in can register at the Cisco Web site to sign up in advance.

My colleague Martin LaMonica, who covers green technology, will be listening to the Webcast. So look for a blog post from him later Wednesday.

[Manhattan2]

It was a mistake for Al Gore to install solar panels

If you have not figured it out yet Ethanol is to blame for some of our financial woes and it was also an environmental mistake for Al Gore to install solar panels on his roof in Tennessee.

[pctec100]

Mistake?

Ok, food based ethanol creating problems I can buy. Many in the environmental movement have said the same thing. Newer technologies that convert waste products, husk, stalks, etc. to fuel may alleviate that problem though.

How do you figure solar panels are a mistake?

[Manhattan2]

Location, type of device, installation all reasons why

The final answer to our energy crisis will be the direct and indirect capture of energy from the sun. A solar panel is inefficient, costly to manufacturer and produces more CO2 to manufacture than other solutions out there. Putting such a device in Tennessee is and will always be a mistake. The answer is out there. Explore SolarTransfer we promise we are on to something. No not on something on to something, something big!

[cp256]

Human Caused Global Warming is HOOEY!

Just keep listening to Algore's junk science RELIGION and the whole country will be in chaos. The findings are garbage based on horrendously flawed computer MODELS. GIGO. For us to perceptibly change the temperature of this planet, we'd have to go back to a PRE-FIRE caveman society.

Ethanol is a disaster, it's helping to ruin our economy. Current hydrogen technology is a waste of effort and money. We need to embrace clean, safe nuclear technology if we're ever going to make electric cars work. We need to drill in the 0.001% of the ANWR and offshore NOW to help reduce our foreign oil dependence in the short term. We're going to use the oil anyway, why not use more of our own and less of the radical islam fundamentalists'? Wind power is good, but its aggregate potential is very limited. Solar panels are still an expensive waste of time and space. How green is an inefficient solar panel's production footprint? Geothermal (natures nuclear power) is interesting, but we're probably better off splitting the atoms ourselves from a cost vs. benefit standpoint. Coal would be great if we could economically eliminate the gaseous byproducts. We have a tremendous amount of coal in the US, we should use it if we can. Why are there any oil-fired power plants in this country, is that insanity or what?

We need to get off this ethanol kick ASAP, before it bankrupts us. Green is good as long as it is INTELLIGENT. Algore's global warming religion is one of the reasons our economy is hurting, he needs to **** and go back his supersized dinner.

[MyRightEye]

We will never drill in the ANWR

We buy foreign oil in order to keep the US $ the world's reserve
currency. If we stopped buying oil and use our own, OPEC nations
would switch to the Euro for their preferred currency, and America
would very quickly stop being the economic super power. This is
why Ron Paul was stopped. He wanted to allow competing
currencies. The big wigs who run the fed will never allow that to
happen.

[Lee in San Diego]

Well you got me convinced

I am switching my home heating and cooking over to coal, buy a
gas guzzling SUV (pull the catalytic converter), dump toxins in
the gutter, keep all the lights on in all the rooms of house even
if no one is home.

So even IF humans have not caused this runaway global warming
crisis it is NOT a good idea to live "green?"

[MyRightEye]

Why do these LIARS continue to ignore the EVIDENCE

Global warming has STOPPED. Not opinion, FACT.

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Widesca
le+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

Humans are responsible only for ************ the rest of us with
stupid propaganda. A new generation of people that think critically
is rising and we will not buy your stupid fear-phrase political
propaganda any longer.

[physloon]

Perhaps you should get the facts

You cannot discount global warming based on a single year. Global warming is a warming trend over several decades and a single cold year does not disprove anything. Seven of the warmest years on record have occured in the last ~10 years. Three of those years were not among the top ten warmest years so do they disprove global warming? No since you have to look at the trend and not a single year. If you insist on spreading uninformed BS you really should not include yourself among those who think critically but instead among the sheeple.

[jpk328]

Cisco has the largest carbon footprint in IT data centers

John chambers and Al Gore together to discuss Greenhouse gases....um...check this out from SearchStorage.net:

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid5_gci1255212,00.html#


"According to the ESG report, a fully populated 384-port 48000 Director from Brocade would consume 2.62 watts per port or 734 kW hours per month, versus a 348-port Cisco MDS 9513, which consumes 6.4 watts per port or 1770 kW hours per month. The carbon footprint, or the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in metric tonnes per year, for Brocade's Director was 3.26 metric tonnes. Cisco's MDS 9513 reportedly came out at 9.04 metric tonnes, when both chassis were fully populated, according to the report. To put this in perspective the average car weighs approximately two tonnes.

Cisco did not return a request for comment on this story."

[William Crow]

Two idiots.

Enough already!