And by comparison a single car produces about 5 metric tons per year, so you could break even if you just took 1800 of the US's quarter million cars off the road (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehic…).
So in other words, 9000 metric tons is not a big number. It's also not a surprising number, an interesting number, or a worrying number. Charles, stop trolling us.
That's about as much CO2 as 1,700 cars driven for a year. In other words, each year the US can produce 100 million roses for about the same climate impact as a year of driving by 1/3 of the people who live in tiny Selah, WA population. That's pretty sweet.
Flowers rot (and apparently destroy the earth or something), but a piece of chocolate can stay with you for years. (She says, affectionately patting her belly.)
But, by my calculations, raising so many roses in a greenhouse setting with 12 hours of sunlight and, given that most long stem roses are grown from cuttings which produce a 5 leaflet leaf every week which produces an average of a quarter meter of leaf surface area and that most long stem rose cuttings are ready for harvest after 54 days of photosynthesis, then those plants have taken up 2,100 metric tons of carbon dioxide just during that brief period and NOT including the parent plants which will continue to photosynthesize for the rest of the year!
The Ugly Truth About Flowers and Valentine’s Day
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/…
So in other words, 9000 metric tons is not a big number. It's also not a surprising number, an interesting number, or a worrying number. Charles, stop trolling us.
No, seriously, it is.
That's about as much CO2 as 1,700 cars driven for a year. In other words, each year the US can produce 100 million roses for about the same climate impact as a year of driving by 1/3 of the people who live in tiny Selah, WA population. That's pretty sweet.
And now I want chocolate.
it's not ALL bad!