Could Google’s Carbon Emissions Have Effectively Doubled Overnight? | The New Yorker

A new report suggests that the money Big Tech companies keep in the banking system can do more climate damage than the products they sell.

Save this story Save this story The temperature in parts of the Antarctic was seventy degrees Fahrenheit above normal in mid-March. Pakistan and India saw their hottest March and April in more than half a century, and the temperature in areas of the subcontinent is above a hundred and twenty degrees this week. Temperatures in Chicago last week topped those in Death Valley. But, on Tuesday, three nonprofit environmental groups jointly released a report containing a different set of numbers that appear to be nearly as scary. They indicate that the world’s biggest companies—and, indeed, any compa

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