Re: [Goanet] Taking the bus....

2008-01-01 Thread Kevin Saldanha
Hi Edgar, As the issue of climate change 'heats' up, methane, which is a digestive gas of ruminants and also produced by decaying vegetation is posing a much bigger risk (20x CO2) to sealing the stratosphere and promoting global warming. Google reveals a bunch of credible research reported in the

Re: [Goanet] Taking the bus....

2007-12-31 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
Ello all, don't fall for the blame game, I would feel guilty... just travelling by plane. Guys, the stands you take just shows That about your stance everyone knows. FN PS: Calculate how much greenhouse gases your flight causes: http://www.chooseclimate.org/flying/mf.html Yes, that's right, wha

[Goanet] Taking the bus....

2007-12-31 Thread Philip Thomas
While you are at it, Bosco, you might want to extend it to 30-40 flights per day (remember they go both ways), versus all the buses, minibuses, cars, trucks full of essentials, and maybe a few bullock carts, all going both ways, to, through and from Goa every day. Trains may be honorable excepti

Re: [Goanet] Taking the bus....

2007-12-30 Thread Edgar Silveira
This is partly (?) true Philip; apparently the gasses (I know, yuck) is one of the contributing factors to global warming and in a significant way. To clarify, I am not an expert nor a scientist but sometimes hear about this on the variety of internet radio programs. Here is a link to podcasts of

Re: [Goanet] Taking the bus....

2007-12-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frederick [FN] Noronha wrote: > I often travel by bus out of Goa. Flying is a necessary evil, > With all this global warming around us, can we justify > needless carbon footprints? Response: Ricohave you calculated your carbon footprint appropriately - average of a plane-full of humanoids for

[Goanet] Taking the bus ....

2007-12-30 Thread Philip Thomas
What about the duration of the trip?

[Goanet] Taking the bus....

2007-12-30 Thread Philip Thomas
< Flying is a necessary evil, at best,avoidable, even if somebody else is picking up the bill (as is oftenthe case while on work). With all this global warming around us, canwe justify needless carbon footprints?>[FN] I learned somewhere that more global warming takes place due to bull-shit than m

[Goanet] Taking the bus....

2007-12-30 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
I often travel by bus out of Goa. Flying is a necessary evil, at best, avoidable, even if somebody else is picking up the bill (as is often the case while on work). With all this global warming around us, can we justify needless carbon footprints? So, coming back to the topic of the bus... I wonde