The climate cost of L.A.'s police choppers

[rangerrebew]

The climate cost of L.A.'s police choppers
For their unnecessary joy rides over L.A., celebrities have been called “climate criminals.” What, then, should we call the L.A. police?

ARIELLE SAMUELSON
APR 14, 2023
 
These days, everyone seems to be obsessed with celebrity jets and how much they contribute to climate change. But there is a far bigger, more powerful polluter in the Los Angeles skies: the cops.
 
Nicholas Shapiro, an assistant professor of biology and society at UCLA, has been crunching the numbers on L.A. law enforcement’s helicopter flights to estimate the climate and environmental impact of what he called L.A.’s “helicopter dystopia.” Though the data is yet to be published in a scientific journal, Shapiro provided HEATED with a first look at the back-of-the-envelope results.

Shapiro’s preliminary calculations show that, from 2019 to 2020, L.A. law enforcement helicopters burned more than 1.2 million gallons of fuel, thereby releasing approximately 11,100 metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

That’s more than double the emissions from number-one-emitter Thomas Siebel’s private jet last year; five times more than Elon Musk’s; and nearly 11 times more than Taylor Swift’s. Kylie Jenner would have to repeat her notorious 17-minute flight 8,795 times to match the yearly emissions of L.A. police helicopters. The average private-jet-less American would have to drive their car around the Earth’s circumference 873 times.

https://heated.world/p/the-climate-cost-of-las-police-choppers

[SZonian]

Now do the "news", medevac, fire fighting and other choppers to you big dope.

[GtHawk]

I propose a fair trade, celebrities, millionaires and billionaires give up their private jets, that should more than make up for the police choppers so that the police can patrol and respond to public emergencies. I bet this professor of Gaia worship would be demanding a police chopper over his home if someone was trying to break in.