The constrained future of aviation
Aviation’s core problem is not the 2.5% (or more of carbon emissions it contributes worldwide). Its problem is that carbon emissions are baked into its business model.
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James Howard Kunstler: Living in the Long Emergency
In this fascinating and wide-ranging discussion, Chuck and Jim look at the impact of the crisis on the automotive and airline industries, our food systems, and more.
UK Ministers Vote to Expand Heathrow
Controversy over Britain’s plans to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport in London, already the second busiest airport in the world, escalated last month with MPs backing the airport expansion.
Biofuels: Can They Save the Airlines from the Seneca Collapse?
“Can the airlines be run on biofuels?” As it often happens, this simple question doesn’t have a simple answer. First of all, it is a question that makes sense only in terms of a “sustainable” plane, that is one that doesn’t run on fossil fuels. That’s a major technological problem.
The end of airlines predicted by no other than former Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon in July 2008
Tony Abbott says it’s the carbon tax that’s hitting Qantas. This article tells it differently.
Climate, politics & money – headlines
•Guide Claims Warsaw COP19 Climate Talks Were Captured By Corporate Fossil Fuel Interests •Parts of Australia reaching threshold where it is impossible for normal life to continue because of the heat •Look What’s Slowing Down Global Warming •Rejecting Man’s Bid For Refugee Status, Court Rules Climate Change Is Not ‘Persecution’ •Climate change: No longer electoral Kryptonite! •Top EU powers retreat further on aviation emission plans •Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions •Man Faces One Year In Jail For Protesting JPMorgan’s Fossil Fuel Investments
Sustainable Development Professionals: Does Your Flight Render Your Efforts Futile?
The Break Even Ecological Footprint (BEEF) concept provides a quantitative answer to the question of how long a Western IHE/SCD professional would have to live at a local, developing community Ecological Footprint level in order to offset the CO2 they emitted by air travel to the field.
Climate Question: Do We Get to Keep Flying?
An analysis of jet fuel alternatives that could be viable in the next decade.