How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world

Re:How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in ... by DiabloD3 on Thursday May 07, 2015 @10:56AM (#9505488)

This is a bit disturbing, I wonder if this is just a case of the DailyFail inflating headlines bombastically with the modern age yellow journalism they are known for (I'm not even saying this in a negative way, people subscribe to them just for this, its their thing, its what they do).

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Re:How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in ... by petercooper on Thursday May 07, 2015 @11:13AM (#9505611)

How about similar sentiments from a publication antithetical to the Daily Mail? The Guardian reported several years ago about how 'one giant container ship can emit almost the same amount of cancer and asthma-causing chemicals as 50m cars': http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-... - though that isn't focusing on CO2 necessarily, but earlier Guardian articles talk about how shipping emits twice as much CO2 as aviation, etc.

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Re:How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in ... by mcguire on Thursday May 07, 2015 @11:54AM (#9505943)

Given that there is no discussion of pollution per cargo-ton mile or the number of deaths caused by, say, pollen production (which is killing me at the moment), I'm going with "yes."

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