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The Godwits versus Ryanair on CO2 emissions...

10-10-20 · 2007-09-11 16:26:14

For all the digs that Ryanair get about opening the skies to cheaper travel, leading to massive increases in carbon dioxide emissions from air-travel, it makes you wonder what the emissions are from these Godwits. Traveling 11,500km in a week, each one departs Alaska, stopping over in China and eventually arriving in New…

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11-09-2007 5:26pm

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For all the digs that Ryanair get about opening the skies to cheaper travel, leading to massive increases in carbon dioxide emissions from air-travel, it makes you wonder what the emissions are from these Godwits.
Traveling 11,500km in a week, each one departs Alaska, stopping over in China and eventually arriving in New Zealand.
Well, one alone must account for a couple of Kg's of CO2, not to mention methane. Multiply that by the couple of 100,000 of the damned birds and you get at least 800 tonnes of CO2 for one mass migration alone. Multiply that again by two for the return trip... 1600 tonnes.

Is the EC going to regulate this open-skies agreement and allow carbon credit swapping in the bird infested skies?

Lead shot would have been the answer 10 years ago, but you can't even get that at a petrol pump these days...

I dunno...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6988720.stm

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