A Harvard University physicist is up in arms about The Sunday Times' report in which his study was cited as claiming a Google search emits as much CO2 as an SUV driven by drunken, gunshot wielding commoner.

The only trouble is, Dr Alex Wissner-Gross claims to have never mentioned Google in the study. "For some reason, in their story on the study, the Times had an ax to grind with Google," says Wissner-Gross in a chat with TechNewsWorld. "Our work has nothing to do with Google. Our focus was exclusively on the Web overall, and we found that it takes on average about 20 milligrams of CO2 per second to visit a website."

The Sunday Times report claims two Google searches cause as much CO2 emissions as boiling a kettle of water, but the good doctor says he has no idea where the author got his statistics.

Feel free to keep Googling, you're not killing any woodland critters or trees in the process, at least not as many as The Sunday Times would have you believe.

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