Saturday, December 24, 2005
Triple Bah Humbug
REINDEER-drawn sleds have been slammed as environmentally unfriendly, because the carrot-munching animals produce the greenhouse gas methane in their wind.NOTE TO MR. BLAKE: Santa is fictious and you wasted a big piece of your salary doing this calculations on somethig that does not exist.
Now Santa has been urged to ditch his sleigh team and start travelling on public transport to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.
It has been calculated that Santa's team of nine reindeer would emit methane with a global warming impact equivalent to more than 40,600 tonnes of greenhouse gases on the 122 million mile Christmas Eve dash to deliver presents around the world.
That would make his marathon sleigh ride almost as environmentally damaging as an aircraft, which would produce approximately 41,500 tonnes of on the Christmas Eve trip....
...The methane calculations were made by Liberal Democrat transport spokesman Tom Brake.
Somebody, please, get me Mr. Blake's address -- I wish to visit his office where I will fart until he is rendered inacapable of drawing a breath.
