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Scientists Contribute to Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Posted by michael on from the doh dept.

dus writes "Many of the 10,000 scientists attending this week's annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) study climate change. Collecting them all in San Francisco undoubtedly increases our understanding of global warming, but it releases more than 12,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, pointed out one of this year's delegates."

3 of 62 comments (clear)

  1. But.. by cfreeze · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ya gotta breathe somewhere..

  2. So, here's an obvious solution / workaround... by ivi · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Teleconference...

    - all of the formal presentation / sessions -and-

    - as many informal BoF's as people may wish
    to conduct, in groups or person to person

    I'd suggest:

    If / when scientists (and / or managers)
    begin to utilise such systems...

    We'll all be much closer to being able
    to use them, ourselves.

  3. Hot Air by rf0 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does that number take into the account the amount of hot air the delegate might spew out

    Rus

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