Meteorologist vows never to fly again after seeing latest climate report

[NickB79]

http://news.yahoo.com/meteorologist-vows-never-to-fly-again-after-seeing-latest-climate-report-134014509.html

In another post for Quartz, Holthaus writes that while he's long done things to help the environment (he recycles, doesn't eat meat, brings his own bags to the store, etc.), his flying habits (75,000 miles flown last year) were no longer something he could ignore.

Holthaus used a carbon footprint calculator from UC Berkeley and found that his flying accounted for nearly half of his household's emissions. He found that if he stopped flying, his carbon footprint would go from being about double the American average to around 30 percent less than average.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I am saving a ton then.

Don't fly, thanks to TSA
only drive a couple times in 6 months..

[Demeter]

2. Homeland Security cured me of the urge to travel

I'll be damned if I put up with that.

[legcramp]

3. He's also considering getting neutered, to save the planet.

[NickB79]

4. The responses Holthaus got on that tweet were expected

Moronic and disgusting, but still expected.

And btw, a vasectomy is not "getting neutered." Not sure if you were just trying to be cute, or truly didn't know the difference.

[kestrel91316]

5. I'm assuming from the post count that this one doesn't know the difference.