Originally Posted by Chimbu chuckles
...most of what a jet puts into the atmosphere is water vapour...
Sadly, this is not true, each tonne of fuel we burn creates
3 tonnes of greenhouse gases!!
Nobody is saying ban Aircraft, it is the responsibility of all people who live on this planet to take care of it.
Clearly as evidenced above, aircraft and other forms of transport are far from the worst offenders.
Obviously our biggest problem is with power generation. My opinion is that the sooner we move the majority of power generation to nuclear the better off we will be, the greenies are hypocritical being against nuclear power, when it is clearly the cleanest high volume option available a the moment!! I concede there is definately a problem with the waste, but surely an answer to that problem can be found...
