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by runarberg
1418 days ago
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You are right. I’m off by a factor of 1000! I used this article (https://kjarninn.is/skodun/eldgos-og-co2/ [Icelandic]) which states that the eruption emitted between 4,000 and 7,000 tonnes of CO2 a day. And then I used the @ElonJet twitter bot (https://twitter.com/ElonJet/status/1553102092327321601) to get the 4 tonnes. Elon’s 12 hour flight back from Greece a couple of weekends ago emitted 65 tonnes of CO2. That is 1/100 of what the volcano emitted over 24 hours. So he has to fly 50 hours to emit the same amount of CO2 as the volcano does in an hour. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are 50 CEOs flying their private jets at this very moment. --- The Icelandic tendency to write out the word thousand plus all the weirdness of the tonne weight unit (as opposed to Mega-grams and Giga-grams) caused my confusion. |
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