But to really save money and emissions, you need to slow down.
And if you're worried about warming but can't be bothered to reduce your emissions you could always go pro-albedo. NPR link hat tip: Fritinancy).
So if you take five long flights a year, they may well account for three-quarters of the emissions you create.
If you dispute the overwhelming scientific consensus about man-made climate change and the role of fossil fuel emissions, you should probably stop reading now.
[I]f you want deep cuts to [greenhouse gas] emissions, you need a broad-based policy, not a hopelessly leveraged argument against a single project.
This year China has a talking robot that tells you the greenhouse emissions you have created travelling to Paris and how you might offset them.
Niles's group has proposed a trade: "If you save your forest and we can independently audit and verify it, we will calculate the emissions you have saved and pay you for that".
If it turns out that it's not that expensive to take out emissions, you want to end up with lots of emissions control, and if it turns out to be very expensive, then you want to end up with only a little bit of emissions control.
"To really impact automotive greenhouse emissions, you have to control energy sector emissions, starting with the oil and gas sector today and from power plants as electric cars enter the market," John DeCicco, a committee member and research professor at the University of Michigan Energy Institute, said in a telephone interview.
Just the choice of from whom you buy a pint of milk asks you how much you value the welfare of the animal that produced it, how many food miles and resultant carbon emissions you are prepared to accept, what level of antibiotics the animal should have been fed, what pricing relationship there should be between the farmer and the retailer.
