Today is Earth day. Happy Earth day!
No, I don't really throw them out the car window. But it is Earth day. It's like a day of remembrance and contemplation. So, while you might walk or drive or drink or eat from the earth every day, today is a day to remember where it all comes from. And where it all goes.
Take flying for instance. Recent news has told you so, so many European flights have been disrupted due to volcano Eyjafjallajoekull (yes, that's the correct spelling). While I sympathize with all the distressed passengers, consider this: The carbon footprint of the volcano vs the carbon footprint of all the disrupted flights. The big pyramid is the European aviation industry. The little red pyramid is how much CO2 the volcano eruption spewed out.
The black pyramid is what we've SAVED in CO2 through all the canceled flights.You can find out more stats here. I'm just sayin' is all.
Happy Earth day. (Thanks soender for pointing out the updated graphic)
2 comments:
The vulcano graphics have been updated, as it contained a rather larger calculation mistake.
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/correction-apology-planes-or-volcano/
What about the actual carbon impact of the eruption itself? Wouldn't that make the plane emissions seem miniscule?
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