Climate Change
Aircraft Emissions Are Bad, But How Bad?
It's become almost a reflex to bash aviation's role in climate change. Passenger planes are big, they emit stuff into the atmosphere, so they must be bad. It's true, but it's not quite that simple.
Richard Parry-Jones: 180 MPG hatch by 2050
Richard Parry-Jones, who at one time acted as Ford's global Chief Technical Officer, believes that it is entirely possible for automakers to reach 180 miles per gallon by the year 2050 with nothing more than the technology available today. Along with that low fuel consumption comes low carbon emissions -- just 40 grams per kilometer -- well below the strictest standards today. Sound unbelievable?
Blowing Up a $60,000 S.U.V. To Save the Planet
By Keith Barry
Ryan Mickle seems like a sane guy. He’s well spoken, intelligent and pretty successful. He’s also environmentally conscious, to the point that he realized he didn’t need his two-year-old Range Rover Sport when his job relocated him to San Francisco.
CO2 Emissions From Commercial Jets Dropping? Not quite.
The EPA has released a report with a surprising, headline-grabbing conclusion: CO2 emissions from commercial aircraft in the US have grown only slightly in the past 15 years and actually dropped since 1995. Here's how the report sums it up:
Plenty of Talk at the International Aviation & Environment Summit
There has been a lot of buzz about this week's big Aviation & Environment Summit underway in Geneva.
Women Who Find Ferrari Drivers Sexy Contribute to Global Warming?
We doubt this came up last week at the United Nation's conference on global warming in Bali, but Britain's top government scientist says the best thing women can do to ease global warming is "stop admiring young men in Ferraris."...
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