{"id":2145,"date":"2014-12-14T17:14:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T21:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2014-12-14T17:14:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T21:14:53","slug":"the-surprisingly-complex-truth-about-planes-and-climate-change-duncan-clark-environment-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/14\/the-surprisingly-complex-truth-about-planes-and-climate-change-duncan-clark-environment-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"The surprisingly complex truth about planes and climate change | Duncan Clark | Environment | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to tot up these differently paced warming impacts into a single carbon footprint number for a flight or any other activity, it&#8217;s necessary to decide what time frame you&#8217;re talking about. Conventional wisdom is to add up the total warming impact of all the different greenhouse gases over the period of a century to create a nice, round but ultimately arbitrary number.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>If, by contrast, we shifted the focus to a much shorter time period \u2013 which arguably would make more sense, given that the next decade or so could turn out to be make-or-break in terms of avoiding climate tipping points \u2013 then the impact of vapour trails and other short-lived impacts look massively more significant.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/blog\/2010\/sep\/09\/carbon-emissions-planes-shipping'>The surprisingly complex truth about planes and climate change | Duncan Clark | Environment | The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to tot up these differently paced warming impacts into a single carbon footprint number for a flight or any other activity, it&#8217;s necessary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[34,94,98,116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}