Carbon footprint calculator

IvanOpinion

I do well except for travel ... I do a lot of business flights. Ah well only another 30-40 years to go until I am shoving up the daisies and couldn't care less

Ivan

DKLS

I'm screwed

Home 4.55
Elec 1.43
Travel 11.46 Gulp

Total 17.44

No way in hell will I give up my car and I cant see me doing my work without hopping on a plane frequently, I really dont see the point, I am I being cynical believing that its just another way to tax us under a green banner.

Coveredinbees!!!!

DKLS wrote: »

I'm screwed

Home 4.55
Elec 1.43
Travel 11.46 Gulp

Total 17.44

No way in hell will I give up my car and I cant see me doing my work without hopping on a plane frequently, I really dont see the point, I am I being cynical believing that its just another way to tax us under a green banner.

Great score!! bet you can make 20 if you try harder:beer:

Cardew

I suspect that for most people travel will be the biggest score.

A single return long haul flight is 1.6. Now that long haul flight could be less than 4,000 miles(return) or 24,000 miles all count as 1.6!

black-saturn

OK, managed to do mine now and it's:

1.62 heating
0.94 appliances
0.34 travel

Total 2.9 tonnes

black-saturn

I also did my parents and theirs comes out at:
heating 2.69
appliances 1.50
travel 4.16

Total 8.35 !!!!

Stompa

Hmm, intriguing.

Household:
1.65 Home
1.32 Appliances
0 Travel

Total = 2.97

Hapless_2

What this calculator doesn't take into account is that some of us cook on solid fuel and don't have a gas or electric cooker. they also don't allow a mixture of heating..i.e. coal and bio-mass(wood) , wood and oil (next door have oil central heating but also a woodburner) etc.

black-saturn

They also presume that because you have a microwave you must be using it all the time. I use mine about once a month. It also presumes that because you have a comp you also must be using that all the time. I did my parents calculation and they only use their comp about twice a year.

DKLS

Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

Great score!! bet you can make 20 if you try harder:beer:

Is that a challenge?

If so I am up for it, Have just emailed the boss suggesting 3 new conferences to attend, Australia, Hong Kong & Argentina, love my job lots of travel to be done, and love the fact that the conferences change location every year.

One I am going to in 3 weeks is in Barcelona, last year was in...............
Leicester :rotfl:I know which I well prefer.