Just in time for Christmas! Are you gleefully anticipating the cutesy digital Coca-Cola-drinking holiday polar bear family? Well this is not that. But it does have cutesy digital polar bears—falling to their deaths from 30,000 feet.
It’s a new UK global warming awareness spot produced by Mother London for Plane Stupid, an organization fighting aviation expansion. It’s quite scary and gory! The copy from the spot reads: “an average European flight produces over 400kg of greenhouse gases for every passenger…that’s the weight of an adult polar bear.” That bit of trivia doesn’t really make any sense, but you get the point: flying=killing Knut. Said director Daniel Kleinman: “No bear was alive when we dropped them from a great height and no pixels were hurt during filming. We did have to mop up the blood though.” Directors are such dicks. I would have like to have also seen some splattering penguins, narwhals, Eskimos, and elves. |Video: Brand Republic|
ad that one to the list of "Ads we couldn't show on TV"…way to waste your client's budget Mother
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.
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.
This is a lie! A Hoax and so many people are making money off these lies!