C02 (Kg)

[V41LEY]

Looking at the recent Premier League teams travelling by air this summer to friendlies; their distances have been calculated (according to a BBC report) in CO2(kg). Is this as if you converted the C02 emissions produced to a solid ? Just curious. Tottenham appear to have won the league with 573,000 kg.
That seems an enormous amount of weight just dumped into the atmosphere - or maybe it isn’t in the scale of things.

[OldGermanHeaps]

The weight already existed as fuel and air, it was just converted into a different set of compounds by a chemical reaction.

[Simpo Two]

I find it odd they measure a gas by weight and not volume. The pressure is pretty constant.

So anyway, what are they going to do, fine every football team for climate change? Ban football and save the planet!

[Kawasicki]

Simpo Two said:

I find it odd they measure a gas by weight and not volume. The pressure is pretty constant.

So anyway, what are they going to do, fine every football team for climate change? Ban football and save the planet!

If you believe in the climate crisis then banning professional sports of all kinds would be a start, as would banning all cultural events that lead to large, non-local, gathering of people.

[spikeyhead]

It's mass, not weight

[OldGermanHeaps]

Kawasicki said:

If you believe in the climate crisis then banning professional sports of all kinds would be a start, as would banning all cultural events that lead to large, non-local, gathering of people.

Lest start enforcing conditions like that on people who shout loudest on climate issues

[Simpo Two]

spikeyhead said:

It's mass, not weight

Ah yes this is where my physics falters. If kilograms are a unit of mass, what does weight use?

[Super Sonic]

Simpo Two said:

I find it odd they measure a gas by weight and not volume. The pressure is pretty constant!

Pressure is not constant.

[hongkongdonkey]

Simpo Two said:

Ah yes this is where my physics falters. If kilograms are a unit of mass, what does weight use?

Newtons.

[V41LEY]

spikeyhead said:

It's mass, not weight

So if 573,000 CO2kg is a measure of matter not weight - is that a lot of matter (in the atmosphere?) from a few long haul flights …….. and then scale it up across your average daily worldlwide air travel etc etc plus all your other CO2(kg) from other sources including man made and non- man made. How much ‘matter ‘ can the atmosphere take ?
Apologies - I quit physics (school) at the earliest opportunity !

[Mr E]

Simpo Two said:

Ah yes this is where my physics falters. If kilograms are a unit of mass, what does weight use?

Force.

[Super Sonic]

V41LEY said:

spikeyhead said:

It's mass, not weight

So if 573,000 CO2kg is a measure of matter not weight - is that a lot of matter (in the atmosphere?) from a few long haul flights …….. and then scale it up across your average daily worldlwide air travel etc etc plus all your other CO2(kg) from other sources including man made and non- man made. How much ‘matter ‘ can the atmosphere take ?
Apologies - I quit physics (school) at the earliest opportunity !

It's 'mass' not 'matter', and as Old German Heaps pointed out, the mass was already there.

[Sporky]

hongkongdonkey said:

Simpo Two said:

Ah yes this is where my physics falters. If kilograms are a unit of mass, what does weight use?

Newtons.

Or Kilograms-force (though that's not a formal SI unit).

[RSTurboPaul]

Atmospheric CO2 is measured in gigatons IIRC (and it is only 0.04% of the atmosphere) so 573000 kg is pretty small, relatively speaking.

[OldGermanHeaps]

Plants love the stuff anyway. Just plant more trees and plants , we'll be just fine.

[juliussneezer]

OldGermanHeaps said:

Plants love the stuff anyway. Just plant more trees and plants , we'll be just fine.

Won't really help in the areas turned into deserts by the increased temps. Might help increase the yield in the English shires though.

[OldGermanHeaps]

Coldest wettest summer I have ever seen, oh no, we will all burn to a crisp.

[xeny]

OldGermanTroll said:

Feed Me!

[juliussneezer]

OldGermanHeaps said:

Coldest wettest summer I have ever seen, oh no

Oh good. We can ignore the satellite data and go straight to you (and how you're feeling) for our science.

[RSTurboPaul]

xeny said:

OldGermanTroll said:

Feed Me!

That is what the plants say, yes