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[ Thursday, November 30, 2006 09:42 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Winter Sports, Global Warming and Polluting Carbon Emissions.

Section:

Alerts

Summary:

Winter sports, leisure and travel are big business and are taken seriously in certain sections of the county.  Today the nytimes reports that winter sports academies are one way for student athletes to pad their college admissions portfolios.  In addition, the skiing professionals are in a bind.  Europe is experiencing a warm winter because of a medium term high pressure weather system that has resulted in delayed or canceled World Cup competitions.  So, why not fly out to Colorado.  EveEd

One problem: jet aircraft engines contaminate the upper atmosphere with a CO₂ vapor trail as they gulp fuel at the rate of eight gallons per minute.

Main:

Is there a problem ,or an opportunity, here?

*  Even smart folks like the U.S. Supreme Court Justices hearing the carbon emission case of Massachusetts v EPA seem to have trouble with concepts like the stratosphere and the troposphere.

* Even environmental attorneys exhaled 20%  CO₂ with each breath.  Maybe lawyer gas should be capped, traded and taxed.  And then there is always the the solid form of pollution from the distal end of the digestive tract.

* Some in the food police corp claim that the major cause of all that gas is our addiction to cheap calories and fast food.  As a matter of public policy they favor a tax on McDonald’s and Taco Bell to fund anti-obesity education programs in the public schools,  organic food curriculum reform at research universities, and organizing agricultural field workers.

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Posted by: dfisk on 11/30 at 09:42 AM
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