Climate change

[gil]

On the flight home from NYC to Boston a few hours a go. Flight delay for the ages. Flight left the get precisely on time but it is sitting on the tarmac idle with engines running for a few minutes before the Captain comes on and says "Sorry folks we have too much fuel so we need to burn 600lbs of fuel BEFORE we take off, should only take 15-22 minutes though.."

Can not make it up.

I was going to write, who care about 1,800 lbs (approx) of additional CO2, but wait. What kind of aircraft? It must have a fuel capacity to fly further than from NYC to Boston. Does that mean 600 lbs too much for your flight? Or 600 lbs more than the aircraft could carry?

Just love the smell of kerosene wafting into a plane cabin ...

How do you come up with 1800 lbs of CO2 from burning 600 lbs of fuel? Sounds like woke mathematics there.

Yep. "how to be an anti-racist" arithmetic.

No seriously, the airline fuel is very carbon-dense (as is gasoline), and when it is burned, each carbon atom combines with 2 oxygen atoms to form CO2, and a CO2 molecule weighs a lot more than a carbon atom. (My external hard drive says that a CO2 molecule weighs 3.67 times as much as a carbon atom.)

[Sibelius Hindemith]

Well i guess that works if 82% of the fuel's mass is carbon and 100% of that carbon combines with oxygen to form CO2 when the fuel burns. Seems to me the EPA should be cracking down on this burning of excess fuel if they really are that concerned about reducing emissions.

[Cascade Kid]

Plants love CO2. It's a great photosynthesis fertilizer that allows plants to convert sugar and starch into energy. Makes the planet green.

[ddraig]

And there is not one "investigative reporter" in the MSM that will look at the data!

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2 ... -on-earth/