Ext User(Bonzo)
07-06-2007, 01:03 PM
Monday, April 09, 2007
An interview with George Monbiot:
MONBIOT: It is becoming morally unacceptable now to fly to go on holiday. The
carbon emissions per passenger mile are roughly the same from a plane as they
are in a car, but while in a car you might travel 10,000 miles in a year, in a
plane you travel 10,000
miles in a day. So individually, by taking a flight, you are doing more damage
than you could possibly do by any other means, and
your luxury is depriving other people of their necessities.
NEWSWEEK: Have you given up flying?
MONBIOT: The only reason for which I will fly is to campaign on climate
change.
Regards
B0NZ0
"...and I think future generations are not going to blame us for anything except
for being silly, for letting a few tenths of a
degree panic us"
Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the National
Academy of Sciences
[most of the current alarm over climate change is based on] "inherently
untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot
accurately forecast the weather a week from now." Dr. Richard Lindzen,Professor
of Meteorology MIT and Member of the National
Academy of Sciences
An interview with George Monbiot:
MONBIOT: It is becoming morally unacceptable now to fly to go on holiday. The
carbon emissions per passenger mile are roughly the same from a plane as they
are in a car, but while in a car you might travel 10,000 miles in a year, in a
plane you travel 10,000
miles in a day. So individually, by taking a flight, you are doing more damage
than you could possibly do by any other means, and
your luxury is depriving other people of their necessities.
NEWSWEEK: Have you given up flying?
MONBIOT: The only reason for which I will fly is to campaign on climate
change.
Regards
B0NZ0
"...and I think future generations are not going to blame us for anything except
for being silly, for letting a few tenths of a
degree panic us"
Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the National
Academy of Sciences
[most of the current alarm over climate change is based on] "inherently
untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot
accurately forecast the weather a week from now." Dr. Richard Lindzen,Professor
of Meteorology MIT and Member of the National
Academy of Sciences