If Global warming is so fearfull why are all the proponents of it going everywhere in their private jets?

Answer 1

As Trevor points out the individual jets puts out little CO2 when we look at the big picture.
Take that one step further. Let's pick on the climate deniers favourite target, Al Gore. When Al jets around spreading his message, in the big picture does that message cause a net reduction in GHGs when compared to if he hadn't traveled to spread that word?

Answer 2

I'm a proponent and I wish I could afford a private jet, I might just manage to buy a wheel or a seat but that's about as far as I'm going to get.

I'm wondering if you're referring here to the Bali Conference. I was asked about this the other day and did some calculations.

If we go to extremes and assume that the delagates flew in on 100 different private Boeing 747's and they all came from the other side of the world (20,000km away) and that they all flew back home using their 100 private Boeing 747's then the total fuel consumption would have been 52 million litres (100 jets x 20,000 km x 2 journeys x 13 litres per km).

52 million litres might sound a lot but it's the amount of fuel consumed around the world in just 341 seconds. Of course, the delegates didn't use 100 private jumbo jets, not did they all fly in from the antipode; a more realistic figure is likely to be in the order of 5 million litres of fuel consumed - the equivalent to half a minute's global comsumption.

In terms of the contribution to global warming, this is going to have added the carbon equivalence of 12,000 tons of CO2 to the atmosphere - about the same as 600 average American citizens produce in a year.

Answer 3

What do you mean all? How many proponents of global warming now own or have ever owned private aircraft of any kind? What is the range of a private jet anyway? San Francisco to Bali? Could a Lear jet make it L.A. to Hawaii without ditching?

How many went by ordinary airliners that were flying anyway?

Who is the hypocrite?

If the thought behind your question was fuel, there would not be enough to drive an ant go-kart round the inside of a doughnut.

Answer 4

I'm know that global warming is occurring and I am ready listen and take part in the debate about what is causing it. But I don't have a private jet. Am I missing out?

Answer 5

Who the heck are you talking about? Here's an equivalent question:

If your mom is so afraid of STDs, why does she keep going around and sleeping with a different guy every night?

Seriously dude, do you think 90% of the world population owns private jets?

If you're talking about the climate conference in Bali, how do you expect representatives from hundreds of countries around the world to have a meeting? Swim?

Answer 6

Yeah. If I really believed that anthropogenic global warming was occurring, I wouldn't have bought my own private jet to blast around the skies in. And the observation that I fly it =everywhere=, even the two blocks to the corner grocery, cements this fact.

Good job catching my hypocrisy, dude.

Answer 7

Theyre hypocrites, but thats them. The problem remains though and people will only take it seriously when its too late. Rather than say its non existent surely its better to cover our bases ( and our childrens) and take it seriously. Better to be wrong and safe than wrong and doomed right? Hypocrites just make cynics of everyone. Ignore them, think of the future with an open mind.

Answer 8

In order to get the word out about global warming, they need to go to a lot of placed to make appearances about it. They raise lots of awareness about it from questions just like this. After all, their one little jet isn't going to do that much damage. [/sarcasm]

Answer 9

Because when global warming become real serious,they already die.So they just enjoy there life,ya know^_^

Answer 10

because they want us to change our lifestyles so that they can continue w/theirs guilt free.
don't you understand, it is more important to talk the talk than to walk the walk. it is about photo ops and sound bytes, not real action. As much as I disagree w/him politically, Ed B Jr has my respect because he does as much as he can in his own life to save energy/recycle/etc, very much unlike the so called leaders of the leftist global warming cabal.