[N_Fiddledog]

"Trudeau's use of the Challenger to fly his family and a nanny from Ottawa to Nassau, Bahamas over the New Year holiday and back consumed about 9,100 litres of jet fuel, according to the Department of National Defence.

Christopher Surgenor, who runs the environmental aviation website GreenAir, calculated that the trip would have therefore created about 23.3 tonnes of CO2 .

James Tansey, a University of British Columbia sustainability professor and co-founder of Offsetters.ca, estimated that it would have used about 19.9 tonnes.

Those amounts are approximately equivalent to the average emitted per Canadian in 2014, which was pegged at the equivalent to 20.6 tonnes of CO2 , according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. That per capita figure includes industrial emissions, of which the oil and gas sector was the number one contributor."

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/pm-s-us ... -1.3250397

[raydan]

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[Strutz]

Merged.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

xerxes xerxes:

It’s an obfuscation of an argument. We can’t listen to these people because they use the same polluting technology as the rest of us. So what?

Really? You have use of a personal jet? You know it's funny, as much as some people can't stand Ed Begley Jr, at least he tries his best to live what he preaches. His words carry more weight than some shit wit who flies all over the friggin' place in their own personal jet while thinking a chinook is aggressive climate change.

Or the other fucking Hollywood hypocrites who come to Alberta to bitch about our oil when all they have to do is look out their own goddam doors. Where the fuck ya think Beverly Hills got and still gets its money?

The states of Washington, Oregon and California have all banned the export of US thermal coal from their sea ports. However Washington and California still accept Canadian bitumen for their refineries.

And for fuck sakes, don't engage in fear-mongering about rising sea levels and then go out buy/build a friggin' beach house. How the Christ am I expected to take someone seriously at that point?