Environmental Law

SAY IT AIN'T SO, GLOBAL WARMING FIGHTERS!

By STEPHEN HOLZER

    Once again, our "environmental heroes" turn out to have feet of clay.  From Bloomberg.com:

Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year.

The delegates each will produce an average 4.07 metric tons of carbon dioxide, or CO2, to reach the resort island 950 kilometers (600 miles) from Jakarta, according to estimates e- mailed to Bloomberg by the UN agency holding the conference.

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The total of 40,700 tons of gas created by the conference is equivalent to the annual emissions of 20,350 mid-sized cars, each traveling 12,000 kilometers, according to www.atmosfair.de, a Web site that allows air travelers to compensate for emissions by investing in strategies to cut gas output in countries including India and Brazil.

Full post as published by Environmental Legal Blogs on December 08, 2007 (boomark / email).