Posted on 10/07/2021 6:14:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Searching for flights on Google just got “greener.”
A new search feature rolled out Wednesday tells users which flights have lower carbon emissions, giving them the ability to choose flights based on carbon emissions just as they would price or the number of layovers.
A basic search for flights will give an estimate of how many kilograms of carbon dioxide the flight will spew from start to finish. Users can prioritize their search by emissions, much like they can by price, if desired. Flights with emissions below the median get highlighted in green.
Google said the estimates are a combination of data from the European Environmental Agency and flight-specific information it gets from airlines and other providers. That data could include an aircraft’s age, model and configuration, the speed and altitude it flies at and the distance between the flight’s origin and destination.
The new emissions tool follows Google’s introduction last month of a way for people to find “eco-certified” hotels. Also on Wednesday, Google introduced technology that allows drivers to find more fuel-efficient routes on Google Maps and from Google’s Nest thermostat, upgrades that will help people find energy from the power grid during times of day when its sources are cleaner, such as from wind and solar.
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If I can fly as green as Al Gore and the Hollywood elite climate activists can, i.e. compared to them in their private jets, I’m flying green enough.
How about old school, which is cheaper and more convenient?
Don’t give a rats ass about “flying green”.
Hopefully will lessen demand on the bigger CO2 emission flights, and allow ME to fly on that flight cheaper....
And those are just the big planes. I would imagine they have dozens of small aircraft including helicopters.
Can you say hypocrites?
Only birds fly ‘green’.
“Carbon dioxide is a different animal, however. Once it’s added to the atmosphere [at high altitude], it hangs around, for a long time: between 300 to 1,000 years.”
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2915/the-atmosphere-getting-a-handle-on-carbon-dioxide/
“Offsetting projects simply don’t deliver what we need – a reduction in the carbon emissions entering the atmosphere.”
” offsetting allows companies like BP and Shell as well as airlines to continue with their unsustainable behaviour while shifting their responsibility for the climate onto the consumer.”
“The popularity of such schemes is expected to drive the carbon offset market into a $50 billion industry by the end of this decade, according to the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets.”
https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/greenpeace-carbon-offsets/
“Greenpeace executive director Jennifer Morgan...’We are in a climate emergency and we need phasing out of fossil fuels.’”
“flying, whether a short or long haul, is one of the most climate-wrecking modes of transport.”
https://friendsoftheearth.uk/climate-change/heathrows-third-runway
This information is new to me. My posting the link doesn’t mean I believe the claim.
“In 2018, emissions from civil aviation were responsible for around 6% of climate heating worldwide and growing. Interestingly, half of this impact was caused by frequent flyers who represent just 1% of the world’s population.”
https://www.leave-it-in-the-ground.org/2021/02/a-rapid-and-just-transition-of-aviation/
“COVID-19 showed that a world with reduced aviation is actually possible.”
Somebody let John Kerry know about this.
She turned off the Perky.
I slid he tip back into my pocket.
Cheapest is almost always the greenest. Sustainable prices are always proportional to the total energy consumed. If it costs more, it is less green somewhere. To find out exactly where, follow the money.
On some tickets, the airport fees and taxes exceed the airfare. The airports, strip searchers, and bureaucrats output more CO2 than the airplane.
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