To Marrakesh by train - Part 5: notes on carbon emissions (and comparison with flying)
So, is it worth it to avoid flying when travelling long distances? When I travel long distances by land, for example, from the Netherlands to Portugal, people often ask, why? This post will make it clear . In the last post I wrote about how we travelled without flying from the Netherlands (via Porto) to Marrakesh and back. In this post, I will show the difference it makes for emissions. But first, why should we care about emissions? Image from "Show your stripes" , Prof. Ed Hawkins (University of Reading) . This image is a representation of the average temperature in the planet since 1850 until 2024. Each stripe represents the temperature of one year. Dark blue represents colder temperatures, and dark red the warmer temperatures. These images, can be produced for any place where there are registries of historic temperatures. For example, this is the one for Portugal: This other graph below is what it actually represents. If we consider the average tempera...
