There are some great green benefits to the huge inconvenience of the volcano ash debacle. Sarah Wilson’s blog (www.sarahwilson.com.au) gives us these stats:
According to this article in The Times
The grounding of 63,000 flights over the past four days has saved 1.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, more than the annual emissions of many developing countries.
The total environmental benefits of the grounding of aircraft may be far greater because millions of business travellers have had to find alternative ways of communicating — and some are likely to change their working habits permanently.
