North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to have departed for Russia via his luxury armored train, South Korean media reported, ahead of expected talks with President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok that the US said would touch on arms transfers to help the Kremlin’s war machine.
Why is he afraid of flying?
Choose one:
A) Getting shot down over Russia by some drunk and untrained air defense crew
B) The North Korean plane falls apart midair because it hasn’t been serviced since 1960
At least he’s reducing his carbon footprint 😂
All air travel, all of it, amounts to less than 3% of carbon emissions.
Every category of carbon emissions is just a part of the total carbon emissions.
Yes and the percentage is important.
So if we make up some 30 more categories with as much emission as air traffic, none of them make an impact, because they are all only about 3% of the total?
Is this how you really think percentages work?
Let’s see: 30*3 = 90
We have room for 3 more categories, and then some!
They are all small, but they still make up 100%
That is not how percentages of an existing number work. C’mon man.
I have 100 sandwiches. 3% of them contain mayo. If I break that total up into all manner of groups 3% of them still contain mayo.
Atmospheric carbon is measurable and we know how much of that number is released by various causes. Adding other causes will not change these percentages - the added causes will just be smaller fractions of percentages that exist.
3% is huge.
Road transport is almost 10x air traffic emissions, as an example
https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
I thought it was substantially more than that.
Just shared this link elsewhere, but it’s generally estimated to be between 1.9 and 2.5% across all data I’ve seen
https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
Doesn’t want to risk having a pilot take one for the team and play the lawn dart game with him on board.
They both are, so they tootle about on trains like the tin pot dictators they are
It would be halarious if they meet in the middle of sibera train to train, like a bugs bunny cartoon