Pollution and cycling...

"LSMike" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4598388.stm

Cycling's pretty good there!

Cycling should be banned, all that sweat and farting, causes far to much
polution!

Alan

I've always wondered how cycling compares with other transport in terms
of CO2 (and other gases!) emissions.

Cyclists have pretty big lungs and emptying them of CO2 at a fair rate
must make some contribution to global warming!

pete

LSMike said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4598388.stm

Cycling's pretty good there!

You think? Pollution exposure at 80% of the level of the worst? I'd
say that is pretty bad.

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

Tony Raven said:

LSMike said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4598388.stm

Cycling's pretty good there!

You think? Pollution exposure at 80% of the level of the worst? I'd
say that is pretty bad.

assuming that this study was taken in London it still makes cycling
least dangerous for my commute; 10 mins on a bike compared to 40
walking or 20 on a bus.

Tony Raven said:

LSMike said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4598388.stm

Cycling's pretty good there!

You think? Pollution exposure at 80% of the level of the worst? I'd
say that is pretty bad.

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

Oh, that's changed. When I saw it, there was cycling at 8,000 and
walking at 5,000 in the little yellow box.

naked_draughtsman said:

I've always wondered how cycling compares with other transport in terms
of CO2 (and other gases!) emissions.

Cyclists have pretty big lungs and emptying them of CO2 at a fair rate
must make some contribution to global warming!

Wrong, well to an extent. We eat food which takes CO2 out of the
atmosphere, just part of the carbon cycle. The transport and production
costs of said food may make an extra cyclist contribution though.

Ian B. said:

We eat food which takes CO2 out of the
atmosphere, just part of the carbon cycle.

Its the part that we convert to methane though that's the real problem
(in many ways) ;-)

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

Probably considerably less than transporting the cyclist by another
mode instead.

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Quoted message said:

Ian B. said:

We eat food which takes CO2 out of the atmosphere, just part of the
carbon cycle.

Its the part that we convert to methane though that's the real problem (in
many ways) ;-)

Poooh!

Alan

Quoted message said:

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Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

Quoted message said:

Probably considerably less than transporting the cyclist by another
mode instead.

Yebbut what about 'unnecessary' leisure rides/races/audaxes? Maybe it's
good that I spend most of my 'cycling time' reading other peoples' ride
reports?

naked_draughtsman said:

I've always wondered how cycling compares with other transport in terms
of CO2 (and other gases!) emissions.

Cyclists have pretty big lungs and emptying them of CO2 at a fair rate
must make some contribution to global warming!

I don't breathe out any more CO2 than I inhale.

Bertie Wiggins <[email hidden]> wrote:
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| On 10 Jan 2006 10:16:40 -0800, "naked_draughtsman"
| <[email hidden]> wrote:
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| >I've always wondered how cycling compares with other transport in terms
| >of CO2 (and other gases!) emissions.
| >
| >Cyclists have pretty big lungs and emptying them of CO2 at a fair rate
| >must make some contribution to global warming!
|
| I don't breathe out any more CO2 than I inhale.

Then you should donate your metabolism to scientific research
immediately <g>.

--
Patrick Herring, http://www.anweald.co.uk/ph

Tony Raven <[email hidden]> wrote:
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| LSMike wrote:
| > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4598388.stm
| >
| > Cycling's pretty good there!
| >
|
| You think? Pollution exposure at 80% of the level of the worst? I'd
| say that is pretty bad.

That's what I thought though in the version I first read there were
hints that there were other forms of pollution than ultrafine particles
for which any car is bad. Anyway, walking, at 50% of a Very Bad Thing,
is presumably also bad, but is recommended. Typical journo problem of
how to sensationalise proportionately.

Also there's no measurement of "cyclists breathe out the stuff more
effectively" for this type, just the exposure.

--
Patrick Herring, http://www.anweald.co.uk/ph

Bertie Wiggins said:

I don't breathe out any more CO2 than I inhale.

You are dead and ICMFP

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

Patrick Herring said:

Bertie Wiggins said:

naked_draughtsman said:

I've always wondered how cycling compares with other transport in
terms of CO2 (and other gases!) emissions.

Cyclists have pretty big lungs and emptying them of CO2 at a fair
rate must make some contribution to global warming!

I don't breathe out any more CO2 than I inhale.

Then you should donate your metabolism to scientific research
immediately <g>.

Maybe he photosynthesises.

Do you have green skin, Bertie?
--
Ambrose

Tony Raven said:

Bertie Wiggins said:

I don't breathe out any more CO2 than I inhale.

You are dead and ICMFP

Actually, he's an AI. Powered by hydro^W wind power, of course.

--
Ambrose

Ambrose Nankivell said:

Patrick Herring said:

Bertie Wiggins said:

On 10 Jan 2006 10:16:40 -0800, "naked_draughtsman"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

> I've always wondered how cycling compares with other transport in
> terms of CO2 (and other gases!) emissions.
>
> Cyclists have pretty big lungs and emptying them of CO2 at a fair
> rate must make some contribution to global warming!

I don't breathe out any more CO2 than I inhale.

Then you should donate your metabolism to scientific research
immediately <g>.

Maybe he photosynthesises.
Do you have green skin, Bertie?

I think he's trying to point out he's carbon neutral. I photosynthesise
regularly, I base this fact on the observation I just *cant* get going
on cold wet days...

In article <[email hidden]>, Ambrose Nankivell

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Tony Raven said:

Bertie Wiggins said:

I don't breathe out any more CO2 than I inhale.

You are dead and ICMFP

Actually, he's an AI. Powered by hydro^W wind power, of course.

Or possibly by potato <URL:http://totl.net/Spud/>

--
Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/>
You can't have ham!

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Ambrose Nankivell said:

Patrick Herring said:

Bertie Wiggins <[email hidden]> wrote:

>
> On 10 Jan 2006 10:16:40 -0800, "naked_draughtsman"
> <[email hidden]> wrote:
>
>> I've always wondered how cycling compares with other transport in
>> terms of CO2 (and other gases!) emissions.
>>
>> Cyclists have pretty big lungs and emptying them of CO2 at a fair
>> rate must make some contribution to global warming!
>
>
> I don't breathe out any more CO2 than I inhale.

Then you should donate your metabolism to scientific research
immediately <g>.

Maybe he photosynthesises. Do you have green skin, Bertie?

I think he's trying to point out he's carbon neutral. I photosynthesise
regularly, I base this fact on the observation I just *cant* get going on
cold wet days...

Ah, so that is what is wrong with me!

I always wondered.

Alan