Every cloud has an acidic lining
Tragedy befalls Copenhagen, Denmark, as a weakened world economy causes a massive cancellation of hotel rooms:
The Foreign Ministry has cancelled 20,000 overnight hotel reservations meant for people attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December.
The move is expected to cost the hotel industry about 40 million kroner in lost revenue, calculated by each night in a hotel room costing about 2,000 kroner, reports Business.dk.
Wait, why is this bad news? You’ll be saving the environment with this loss of hotel work!
Okay, picture 10,000 of the 12,000 people who were attending would be from other countries, and the average flight for each is rougly 3,000 km. We’ll pretend they are all flying on the super-efficient Airbus A380, which carries 525 passengers in their newer versions. According to this Global security article, the A380 produces 75g of CO2 per passenger per kilometre. All of these multiplied together gives us 2,250,000,000g, and if you double it for the trip back, assuming they don’t stay in the Hotel California of Copenhagen and can never leave, that makes 4,500,000,000g. That’s 4,500 tonnes of CO2 now wiped out. Færdig! Død! (That’s Danish for kaput.) That’s not even counting the spending on taxis or shopping at local stores.
By bungling the organization of this climate change event, they might have lessened the economic activity that generates emissions. Bear in mind that if the climate experts can overestimate greatly the turnout for one of their climate change events, they might be prone to overestimating the environmental impact of CO2 as well.
August 20th, 2009 at 11:21 am
LOL
You may not know but in Winnipeg we just underwent our 8th month of below normal temperatures. August is looking like number 9 if this keeps up. Drive a mile for us PLEEEEEEASEEEEE
It might not help, but then again it might make it warm enough to be tolerable.
August 20th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Hurrah! The earth will live for one more day.
August 21st, 2009 at 11:23 am
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December 3rd, 2009 at 8:22 pm
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