Carbon Emissions re Holiday Flights?

Question

I recently saw a programme where a guy logged on to a website, taped in his holiday destination and it showed him the amount of carbon emissions produced from his flight. It calculated what it would cost him (roughly £4.50) and he was then able to donate that money on line and it went towards planting trees. Can anyone tell me the name of the website as I'd like to use it ! Thanks

Answer 1

co2balance.com will calculate the amount of carbon you're using for a flight (it actually calculates for your flight, not just an 'average' flight). For example, a return flight from Liverpool (UK) to Riga (Latvia) uses 1.31 tonnes of carbon per person.

However, that site will charge £12 to 'neutralise' that.

Another site, The Carbon Neutral Company (carbonneutral.com), sells 'project packs', so you can choose how the carbon is offset - whether it be replanting woodland in the UK, projects in developing countries, or researching new technology. Also, this appears to be cheaper than the previous website, at only £10.08 to offset the same amount of carbon. They also, if you request it, send a little certificate out to you, if you were to buy it for a friend for example - which is nice!

Answer 2

Here are some ideas ive come up with because i will be flying soon as well, 1. SLEEP (sleeping pills work) 2. Music player such as ipod or mp3 player 3. Read a magazine or book 4play with playdough ( before you leave on your flight make a list of rabdom things, the.pn try to create the with playdough) 5. Brush your hair ( whenever i get bored i alway brish my hair or try new hair styles) 6. If you flying with someone play games like flash 7. Bring cards 8. Try to remember every thing that you packed (make a list) 9. Play any game on yoir phone or ipod 10. Bring paper and try to do origami 11. Start a journal or auto biography 12. bring colored pens or markers and tatto yourself 13. Print out logic puzzels 14. Try to make upa secret code 15. Tell people you are older than you really are 16. Draw or scetch 17. Try to count to 1000 18. Try to write your name using 25 different fonts 19. Think about stuff 20. Come up with your top 50 baby names

Answer 3

It's a scam. The majority of the trees that will be planted will die, and its debatable whether the surviving trees will actually reduce carbon dioxide levels from the atmosphere.

Not only that, but the damage done to the environment by a plane will be immediate, while it will take decades to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Carbon 'offsetting' is the equivalent of pissing overboard to stop a ship from sinking.

If you genuinely care about the environment, stop flying, and persuade everyone you know to do the same

Answer 4

Why doesn't anyone see the madness here. Planting trees (in the northern hemisphere) actually increases the local temperature thus ading to the global warming problem. These carbon offsetting schemes are a scam. The only way to slow the process down is to stop flying. As a race, we won't stop...so the problem will continue.

Answer 5

The British Airways website has one. See below:

Answer 6

Do you mean the carbon footprint calculator?
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.html

Answer 7

sorry dont know the website but if you find out could you post it coz it sounds like a gr8 idea

Answer 8

It's a total nonsense...just another scare tactic to raise your taxes