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California to Launch Weather Satellite

posted by takyon on Tuesday September 18 2018, @10:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the moonbeam-powered dept.

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California Gov. Jerry Brown to launch satellite to track greenhouse gas emissions

California Gov. Jerry Brown started the week by signing a pair of actions to get his state to use nothing but electric power drawn from green sources like wind and solar by 2045. He ended the week Friday with a surprise: The state would launch its "own damn satellite" to track down greenhouse gas emitters who fuel global warming.

Brown announces California plan to launch satellite to track climate change

News of California's satellite was among an abundance of pomp and pageantry on Friday when some of the week's biggest names took the stage, including musician Dave Matthews, former Secretary of State John Kerry and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @01:02PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @01:02PM (#736483)

    Carbon-offsets are a modern day sin-box and most schemes are proven scams. [redd-monitor.org] Revised fraud laws would help there. From your second link

    Average American: 19 tons of carbon per year.
    (average European: 10 tons, but that's not what you asked)
    Average coast to coast flight on a commercial flight: 1-3 tons per passenger.
    Average coast to coast flight on a private jet: 21 tons.

    So a private jet flight across the USA releases about as much carbon on the atmosphere as an average American does in a whole year. And that's a tall bar to jump already.

    Is "another perspective" like "alternative science"? Airtravel [nationalreview.com] and multiple private homes [snopes.com] in different states increase carbon footprint to many multiples of the average person.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19 2018, @03:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19 2018, @03:17AM (#736898)

    A 747-400 can carry approx 200 tonnes of fuel. It can carry around 600 passengers.
    Even assuming it burnt the full load of fuel on each flight that would still be around 300 kg of carbon per passenger.