Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest | Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator

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1. The paper is [here](https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02847-4)

2. That also means that billionaires are undercounting their emissions even more. So I still don’t have to do anything except blame rich people. Yay!

3. I say this as someone who’s just taken a flight over the weekend to visit my daughter (Irish person here with a beautiful half German 12 year old living there with her mom) but it is ridiculous how normalised it’s become to fly on mass for so many (predominantly us living in the global north).
   Just look at a flight tracker to see the utter numbers of planes in the sky at one time and it’s boggling, and ridiculously naive to think it doesn’t have any affect, especially as emissions are left at a much higher altitude.

   Don’t believe in “one rule for you, one rule for me” at all of course, but the way we normalise new behaviours so easily definitely is an issue for us to be aware of

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