Re: Travel Considerations

  You're assuming that if 1000 people decide not to fly to Prague
some weekend that the number of planes burning jet fuel to fly there
will be different. I don't think so.

  Maybe you can start a "Boycott Prague The Spoke City" campaign which,
if wildly successful, will reduce demand to fly there by some discernable
amount and thereby reduce the number of planes flying there and the amount
of jet fuel they would've burned. Well, as long as the planes that aren't
flying to Prague aren't used to fly to Heathrow or Frankfurt or some other
hub city. Also doubtful.

  I do not intend on making ietf-discuss into a forum for discussing
the pluses and minuses resulting from a degree centigrade temperature
change but let me just say that "the planet wins" is a somewhat dubious
statement.

  Dan.

On Fri, October 12, 2007 7:32 am, Eric Burger wrote:
> Here is an interesting optimization problem: it turns out the most
> polluting part of a conference is people taking jets to fly to the
> conference.  Minimize that and the planet wins.  Favors hub cities over
> spokes, like San Diego or Prague, where you "can't get there from here",
> no matter where "here" is.
>
> See http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/318/5847/36.pdf
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