Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Chelsea, the A380, aviation emissions and Nigeria


So Abramovich, the Russian oligarch owner of Chelsea FC, has acquired an Airbus 380 as a private jet! The dimensions of that humongous aircraft are unimaginable, then imagine it as a private jet! I knew Abramovich thinks big, but this is beyond big! Anyway, we will rule out the possibility he will ever lend the plane to Mourinho and the boys to visit Nigeria for an exhibition match. Nobody here has an idea when our airports plan to start to make plans to accomodate an A380. Thank God i'm an Arsenal fan! But with all the buzz about protection of the environment, one of the surest methods would be to but more people but less planes into the air. Thats a no brainer. Civil aviation experts at the ICAO meeting in Montreal are definitely going to be in for a hard time to come to a consensus on how best to manage the effects of aviation emissions which account for 3% of the total human output of greenhouse gases. On one hand are mostly industrialised nations while on the other hand are developing economies who hope for a balance to encourage the growth of thier economies. The EU plans to unilaterally limit greenhouse emissions in the near future. Any deal they come up with must allow emerging economies like Nigeria some leeway, after all the effects of what we feel now arise from the effects of years of industrial pollution by developed economies. They should talk to Abramovich, he must be doing something right.

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