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Ski season started at the Collet d’Allevard this weekend. We went today. Diane is already doing better than last year. Pictures follow.

Nathalie found this .gif somewhere.

Who has the time to do ASCII art like that?

This past week I flew Blue 1 from Stockholm to Helsinki. I was tired, leafing through the airline magazine trying to see if I could understand any Finnish words at all. Not really.

I did read in English, however, that I could have bought carbon offsets corresponding to my ticket.

Here is their calculation of my contribution to global warming on that leg, which was the shortest of my trip last week.

Leg	Aircraft	CF	Trips	GCD	pkm	CO2	NOx	CO	HC	H2O	SO2
				km		kg	kg	kg	kg	kg	kg
ARN-HEL	KF Avro RJ85	71%	1	398	398	98	0,27	0,29	0,03	38	0,03
			1		398	98	0,27	0,29	0,03	38	0,03

Notice that even the vapor trails are seen as contributing to global warming. I wonder if my car is worse.

The price of the carbon offset is calculated as 1.07 EUR.