Comments on: Every Time You Fly You Knock A Polar Bear Off A Cloud http://animalnewyork.com/2009/11/every-time-you-fly-you-knock-a-polar-bear-off-a-cloud/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:09:22 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: tallc23 http://animalnewyork.com/2009/11/every-time-you-fly-you-knock-a-polar-bear-off-a-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-12190 tallc23 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:33:08 +0000 http://animalnewyork.com/?p=45878#comment-12190 This is a lie! A Hoax and so many people are making money off these lies! This is a lie! A Hoax and so many people are making money off these lies!

]]> By: CRASS http://animalnewyork.com/2009/11/every-time-you-fly-you-knock-a-polar-bear-off-a-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-12078 CRASS Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:26:05 +0000 http://animalnewyork.com/?p=45878#comment-12078 Science? has done some elementary maths and revealed themselves to be an idiot. You clearly have no idea how chemistry works, do you? Burning a carbon based fuel takes carbon from the fuel tanks of the plane and fixes it with two oxygen atoms from the air. Oxygen atoms have an atomic weight of 16, carbon 12. For every 1 gram of carbon you get 3.7 grams of CO2. Fuel is a mixture of carbon and hydrogen, but in weight is almost all carbon (hydrogen has an atomic weight of 1). So a plane with about 50 tonnes of fuel on board emits, wait for it... 166.5 tonnes of CO2. Science? has done some elementary maths and revealed themselves to be an idiot.

You clearly have no idea how chemistry works, do you?

Burning a carbon based fuel takes carbon from the fuel tanks of the plane and fixes it with two oxygen atoms from the air. Oxygen atoms have an atomic weight of 16, carbon 12. For every 1 gram of carbon you get 3.7 grams of CO2. Fuel is a mixture of carbon and hydrogen, but in weight is almost all carbon (hydrogen has an atomic weight of 1). So a plane with about 50 tonnes of fuel on board emits, wait for it… 166.5 tonnes of CO2.

]]> By: science? http://animalnewyork.com/2009/11/every-time-you-fly-you-knock-a-polar-bear-off-a-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-11994 science? Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:26:58 +0000 http://animalnewyork.com/?p=45878#comment-11994 A "ton" of CO2 represents the equivalent refrigeration value of a "ton" of ice for 24 hours, not the mass of CO2. A 747-400, standard trans-oceanic airplane, carries 416 passengers in a 3-class cabin and has an empty weight of 178,800 kg. 416 polar bears at 400kg weighs 166,400 kg. So, every trans-oceanic flight produces almost its own mass in CO2? This is new-science for gullible people who failed science but want to "feel" like smart people. A “ton” of CO2 represents the equivalent refrigeration value of a “ton” of ice for 24 hours, not the mass of CO2.

A 747-400, standard trans-oceanic airplane, carries 416 passengers in a 3-class cabin and has an empty weight of 178,800 kg. 416 polar bears at 400kg weighs 166,400 kg. So, every trans-oceanic flight produces almost its own mass in CO2?

This is new-science for gullible people who failed science but want to “feel” like smart people.

]]> By: Mr. Polar bear http://animalnewyork.com/2009/11/every-time-you-fly-you-knock-a-polar-bear-off-a-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-11966 Mr. Polar bear Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:03:24 +0000 http://animalnewyork.com/?p=45878#comment-11966 ad that one to the list of "Ads we couldn't show on TV"...way to waste your client's budget Mother ad that one to the list of “Ads we couldn’t show on TV”…way to waste your client’s budget Mother

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