Posted on 07/10/2017 7:54:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Cruise ships can emit as much particulate matter as a million cars every day and the air quality on deck can be as bad as the world’s most polluted cities, according to a new investigation.
An undercover investigation by the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 television station has revealed the shocking levels of pollution found on board some cruise ships.
Channel 4’s Dispatches program sent its investigators onto P&O Cruises’ 250-meter-long Oceana vessel, which can carry more than 2,000 passengers.
The program focused on monitoring ultra-fine particles in the air around the vessel, and the investigation showed that just one ship can emit the same amount of particulate matter in one day as one million cars. […]
Cruise ships typically use heavy fuel oil in their engines, a residual product that is left over after petrol and diesel have been produced. It has very high sulfur content, but is more cost-effective than other fuels.
P&O responded to the program’s findings by highlighting that it has reduced its fuel consumption by 28% since 2005 and that the company slashed CO2 emissions by 20% in 2014 alone. …
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Oh well; time to go nuclear.
The fish love it.
Not believing the hype.
I’ve told them a million times to stop exaggerating.
(Stern look on face.) THAT’S IT FOLKS! We have to stop all ocean cruises for the sake of women, children, and Nemo.
That’s nothing compared to the daily emissions on a cruise ship when one of those norovirus outbreaks hits. Pheww!
Outlaw cruise ships, for the children.......
No Controlling Legal Authority!!!
Thats why we burn $15/gal organic extra virgin olive oil in all our U.S. war ships.
Autos dont polute when the engine is not running.
There is ALWAYS at least one engine running 24/7 on every ship that floats. Engines for ships are not quite a million times as big as your whole car but, you getting the picture yet??
Wonder how much oxygen is released into the atmosphere from those very same cruise ships screw wash and wake?
Easy fix! Bring back sails and oars. Who will man the oars? the passengers of course! Captained by someone named AHAB, Bligh or “Wolf” Larsen.
A million cars? That’s seriously ridiculous exaggeration.
Notice that nothing Negros or Hispanics or Muslims do seems to bother them.
Chuckle! True.
Not so funny for the afflicted ones.
Just returned from a wonderful Bermuda cruise three weeks ago. While on the cruise I wondered why they hadn’t been attacked by the left yet.
Did you cruise out of Baltimore on the 24th?
How about a B-747? A B-747 on a flight from L.A. to New York (say with a decent tail wind with the flight lasting 4 1/2 hours) burns about 12K gallons of jet fuel.
That’s a lot of CO2. It’s going to be quite a while before they figure out how to get aircraft to fly on battery power.
Shut down the EUROPEAN CRUISES.
Liberals abound on cruise ships. They are the biggest bunch of hypocrites on the planet.
They had five cruise ships in 2014, but the Obama economy was so bad back then that they took one completely out of service that year. Voila! A 20% CO2 emissions cut!
Thanks, Barack!
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