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The problem I have is a lot of these people who are telling us we need to cut emissions or tax us with carbon taxes are either of the rich (taxes don't affect them as much) or they use and abuse taxpayer dollars to 'spread' the message of carbon reduction.

Is there a need for every individual world leader to travel to one location to discuss carbon emissions on their private jets? Why can this not be done remotely via teleconference, etc?

Average American: 19 tons of carbon per year.
(average European: 10 tons)
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.

A Boeing 747 uses 7840kg of aviation fuel for the take-off, climb and descent portions of the flight and these account for about 250km. For journeys longer than that, the plane will use 10.1kg for each additional kilometre under typical cruising conditions. So to fly from Heathrow to Edinburgh (530km) uses 10,668kg of fuel, which releases a little over 33 tonnes of CO2.

Whereas a Ford Mondeo 1.8 TDCi emits 151g of CO2 per km and covers 650km to reach Edinburgh. That works out to be 98kg for a single passenger, compared to 79kg per person for the Jumbo, assuming it carries its full complement of 416 passengers. But you could drive 336 cars to Edinburgh for the same CO2 as one plane.

http://www.bitsofscience.org/plane-or-train-planes-20x-as-bad-climate-per-km-6835/
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