The Federal Aviation Administration has published an interesting map that shows the amount of fuel burned by aircraft traffic worldwide for the years 2000-2004. The US and Europe show the highest amounts of fuel consumption, and thus air traffic.
The accompanying stats show that there were 24,085,131 passenger jet flights during 2004 that travelled a total of 18.7 billion nautical miles, and that these flights injected an estimated 584 billion Kg (about 644 million tons) of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere…can’t be a good thing.
Global Aviation Emissions Inventories for 2000 through 2004 – FAA/SAGE, Sept 2005
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It seems that people always worry about cars and fuel emissions, and so often aircraft get off scott-free.
I’m surprised Canada doesn’t get more air traffic. Every airport I’ve ever been to in Canada was packed.
And I’m surprised that Europe’s so densely air-trafficked, if that phrase makes any sense.