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by Barry Artiste | February 9, 2009 at 06:15 am
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Boy, someone has way too much time on his hands to come up with this little tidbit of information, considering the Carbon Footprint and all the paperwork in determining First Class Passengers are Big Time Polluters!
Perhaps he should concentrate on much bigger issues, such as media print, I am sure that takes out far more trees than First Class Passengers with take up a measly 10 percent of an entire plane!
Turns out there's an environmental cost to the extra leg room, free wine, warm towels and hefty price tag that comes with first-class air travel, according to new research.
The Business Travel Research Centre at Cranfield University in the United Kingdom found that the carbon emissions level from first class may be more than double of those of passengers in the economy section.
As part of their "real estate calculation," they considered the average space occupied by first-class passengers and the actual load factors in both premium and economy cabins on transatlantic flights between North America and Europe.
Keith Mason, director of the centre, said another variable could make the carbon footprint between coach and business classes even greater, but the research team didn't have access to the data to include in their analysis.
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at 13:23 on February 9th, 2009
Airlines should provide passengers the option of buying a carbon offset credit at the time they book their fare. That way ALL passengers (first class or coach) would be able to travel guilt-free.
at 14:50 on February 9th, 2009
Hey I am all for pollute as you go!
at 18:57 on February 9th, 2009
Carbon offsets are ok, but John Travolta should give up the jet and talk his buddy, Al Gore, into giving up his. But Robert Kennedy, he of the SUV, the opposition to wind mills of the coast of his ancestral summer home, what a set of contradictions that is.
You shouldn't be able to buy yourself out of all of it. You should have to be an example as well.
I don't know if we are the main factor in global warming or not, but I really don't know how people without even the slightest bit of knowledge about modeling, statistics and the processes of science can be so sure.
I remember "learning" that the eagles' shells were becoming thinner because of DDT. Yeah, I read "Silent Spring".
Then someone did experiments giving eagles DDT and measure their shell thickness, and, hey! Guess what! No change.
Whatever had been causing the eggshell thinning- it wasn't the DDT.
Last point about Global Warming: one of the great physics institutes of Switzerland, whose name escapes me at the moment, said that weather and climate models were like sausages.
They looked really good until you found out what was in them.