Flying without feeling guilty.
You may be hoping that guilt-free flying is just around the corner, but scientists warn it is still a long way off.
Plans for climate-friendly flying rest on creating greener jet fuels that have less impact on the environment.
Switching to sustainable fuel is also key to the government’s aim to reach “jet zero” flying by 2050.
But the Royal Society concludes there is currently no single, clear alternative to traditional fuel.
The trade body for UK airlines said the sector was committed to the 2050 target and that sustainable fuels would be a key factor in reaching it.
Flying is responsible for 2.4% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 8% of UK emissions. These gases warm the atmosphere, contributing to global warming and climate change.
Here we go again with ‘contributing to climate change’ as if it is an indisputable fact. How can anyone take this outlet even remotely seriously? I mean, seriously?
I hate flying and haven’t done so since I retired from my rail work and no longer need to fly to Belfast for work. The security theatre was enough to make the whole experience awful. I swapped from flying to driving for the Glasgow gigs and got there at much the same time.
But at no point did I ever feel guilty about it and should I need to fly again, I still won’t. See? Easy peasy.
A battle fought on grounds of your enemies choosing is a battle lost.
There is no climate (insert hysterical term of choice). There is no shortage of hydrocarbons on earth (and not on the universe at large). There is no shortage of energy or rae materials, nor need there ever be.
I simply don’t acknowledge this shite.
There is a reason why there is no realistic alternative to currently used fuels or jet and internal combustion engines but it’s not one the hypocrite infant fanatics are capable of even beginning to comprehend.
I notice that italy and the fatherland are saying no to the fantasy car ban. Milk floats and cunt pumps have run into a brick wall. There are protests against 15 minute gulag and the attempted destruction of agriculture (not reported in Pravda of course).
This green fantasy is over. It might not appear to be, as the hysteria and fanatical attempts at coercion just seem to be getting worse, but a hollow, rotten dead tree seems sturdy and strong, them one day it just collapses.
Oh we’ve a few more years to put up with, but 5 years from now, I think you’ll struggle to find a “green”
An article on No Tricks Zone is this … https://notrickszone.com/2023/03/01/warming-globe-then-why-havent-winters-in-tokyo-been-warming-since-the-1980s/
It sort of baffles me how global warming can continue to be absent for so long without people noticing. Surely the penny must drop eventually.
I suppose that people have noticed that we get less snow in the winter in the UK, but that’s just normal variation. Last summer was especially warm, but again, not unheard of, more normal variation. But it gets spun by the hysterical media into a climate emergency. There is, of course, no such thing. Nothing is happening that you wouldn’t expect to happen as a planet eases its way out of an ice age. Extreme weather events are perfectly normal and happen every year just as they always have.
I believe that the cost of everything more or less is related to the cost of energy.
Food – fertiliser, diesel – both on farm and carting stuff about, the steel used to make the farm machinery. Even heating the supermarket. Workers want more pay because the cost of their fuel has gone up, and the cost of all the food too – see above.
Same for railways. Not just the fuel for the train that you are on, but also for running them about empty, for the huge fleets of support road vehicles, and keeping all those workers and stations warm (or cool). Then there is the huge amount of energy involved in constantly renewing the rails and signalling stuff. (Yes, I know it is China and India that does the dirty work, flogs the steel and copper to us aboard huge diesel powered ships and lets us have lovely green, clean conscience.). Why do you think railways cost so much?
Whereas flying seems suspiciously cheap. Is government secretly slipping them taxpayers money? Are the airline’s and airports all working at a loss?
Repair and replacement of the infrastructure, mostly. It’s hideously expensive – made more so by restrictive rules that often lead to work being curtailed or cancelled. Airlines don’t have to worry about that.