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Calculating the CO2 Cost of Al Gore and Bali |
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
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Recently, I read an article speaking about Al Gore and his flying itinerary for the month of December. Reportedly, Mr. Gore is flying to Norway to pick up his Nobel Prize and then is flying to Bali for the climate conference. Has Al Gore considered the Co2 he will produce with this flight? Perhaps if he video conferenced in, then other delegates would have done the same. Instead, 10,000 delegates from 200 countries attended (flew in) the conference. What does this mean? If using Terrapass’ carbon calculator for flying it is estimated that Al Gore and his entourage (approx. 10 people) would have produced over 100,000 pounds of CO2 flying. However, even more appalling is that the emissions produced by the delegates in Bali (getting to and from their countries) in terms of CO2 is about 50 million pounds. That's a big carbon footprint when the goal is to discuss it's reduction.
Read the full story at The Herald Tribune |
