Airline pax question

av8tr1 said:
If you listen to some of these "carbon foot print" loonies there should be so much carbon ash(?) on the ground that the entire planet should look like Yakama after St. Helens blew.
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This is parody of how extremist lunatics lack scientific knowledge? Because Carbon ash geysers are a thing. We call it dry ice. Happens on Mars. (OK, mostly sand and dust propelled by sublimating dry ice, but it's sort of volcano-like while not actually being at all like a volcano)..
 
I've risked my own life occasionally to save people unknown to me, or their homes and valuables, since mid-1978. I drive a four-cylinder car that gets fairly good gas mileage. Don't recycle much personally, but my garbage collector sorts things out in a big, magical place that gets stuff reused.

All that being said, I'm damned happy to have a smart TV, an IPad, and phone which fits my pocket neatly. I was fortunate to be born American, with all it's first-world issues. I can buy an ATV, if I want, or a gas-guzzling Hummer, or even fly for an hour with an instructor out of Sky Acres Airport for no particular reason at all except desire, and love of the sky.

I've burned a lot of dead dinosaurs in my lifetime as a consumer without much regret.

From that perspective, I'd note that someone concerned enough to ask about a carbon footprint ought likely to have done so before buying a ticket.
 
MikeD said:
She just said with somewhat of a confused look (she was busy getting pax emplaned, and then gets this question), and just said "I will ask the Captain after we get airborne."
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Dude, really? I had this awesome mental scene of a self-righteous, hipster/hippie know-it-all asking an absurdly hypocritical question and getting put in their place by a witty repartee from an on-point flight attendant and you've basically replaced that with "the airline experience". Thanks. I'm now disappointed with both parties.
 
NickH said:
This is parody of how extremist lunatics lack scientific knowledge? Because Carbon ash geysers are a thing. We call it dry ice. Happens on Mars. (OK, mostly sand and dust propelled by sublimating dry ice, but it's sort of volcano-like while not actually being at all like a volcano)..
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What I have been subjected to is certain eco extremists who claim that places around this planet are "covered in carbon dioxide" as if it was like ash from a volcano. In one particular case as this person was claiming we had to apply a 100% halt to the production of CO2, I had to point out that the air is made up of .04% CO2 something all breathing living animals expend as they exhale. And she should stop breathing immediately to do her part. It was one of those "I can see your epidermis" moments but with an adult.
 
milleR said:
Dude, really? I had this awesome mental scene of a self-righteous, hipster/hippie know-it-all asking an absurdly hypocritical question and getting put in their place by a witty repartee from an on-point flight attendant and you've basically replaced that with "the airline experience". Thanks. I'm now disappointed with both parties.
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Dude, its a Flight Attendant. They are not known for witty repartee and rocket surgery. Those people become pilots.
 
I would ask the passenger how much they farted today. Methane is 25 times more potent of a GHG. While I am an ardent study of climate change, it the passenger was so concerned, prolly should have loaded up his TREK cross country (with optional pannier bags) and started peddling.

Fuel burn in gallons X 20 is the approximate pounds of CO2 btw.
 
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