[MUDDOG]

While the EU pours billions down a Greek drain.

[spokeshave]

The most aggressive of the regulations requires the nation’s existing power plants to cut emissions 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030

2030...sounds about right...the next ice age should be freezing everything...

Suns magnetic field in decline

No sunspots for you

Video here

The Sun is Going to Sleep

[This_far]

Freaking pikers, niggardly one might say, compared to the commie in chief in the USA

[FreedomPoster]

Lysenko “Science” on full display. Sad, really.

[Swordmaker]

The article is long oh rhetoric but short on financial facts. Apple has not spent "Billions" on green issues. The most you could point to is that Apple has made it's installations energy self-suficisnt, but that turns out to pay for itself by actually selling energy back onto the grid during times of low demand. Total cost for all of Apple's plants has been actually less than $1 billion of the several billion spent in building their server farms, so far.

• Is Apple fully in the Global Warming believer camp? Yes.
• Do they make their products meet or exceed environmental standards? Yes.
• Is Apple spending huge loads of money pushing that agenda? No, not excessively, and what they have spent has silenced the negative drumbeat they had been getting from Greenpeace for not doing enough because of Apple's historic silence on the subject under Steve Jobs.

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[palmer]

Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson now heads up Apple’s environmental efforts. The firm boasts that it measures its carbon footprint “rigorously,” estimating it emitted 34 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents in in 2014.

The iPhone 6 costs $240 to make in China: https://technology.ihs.com/528618/samsung-galaxy-s6-edge-pricier-to-build-cheaper-to-buy-than-comparable-apple-iphone-6-plus According to the World Bank, China produces about 0.7 kg of CO2 per dollar of GDP (probably lowballed due to the PPP adjustment). Therefore each iPhone results in 168 kg of CO2 or .168 metric tons. Apple sold about 170 million iPhones in 2014 which equates to 28.5 million metric tons, just for the manufacturing of iPhones.

[yoe]

"... have spent billions trying to halt global warming.

Really? Please explain.......meanwhile not being of the millennial generation and having gained a little wisdom, I don't think you can conclude something from incomplete data...i.e. the science on climate change/global warming...as the earth and Mother Nature are always changing there is precious little one can do to stop her or change her. It is enough that we each take care of our little plots, keeping them clean as well as our selves.......

[Secret Agent Man]

They could spend billions on much worse, more effective disasterous things.