How are those Coast-to-Coast Conferences Working Out for You?

An extra 1,200 miles on four or five plans trips a year has an infinitesimal impact on the environment. 

My point was more about Sustainable Stanford than the actual impact. The Stanford womens volleyball team will travel 33,700 miles this year! Add in all the sports teams and is it infinitesimal? Maybe/probably, but not supportive of university goals.

The above mileage for Stanford women’s volleyball is only the conference regular season. Doesn’t count post season games which they usually participate in.

They will charter at least 3 flights.

Every person on a standard round trip flight between Miami and San Jose puts up as much CO2 as driving 18,000 miles.

For a 20-person team (16 players and four coaches give or take), you are looking at as much CO2 as driving 360,000 miles, about as much as 30 people drive in a year.

The airlines schedule around sports schedules. And, if there is added demand, the airlines will add flights, which can increase the foregoing numbers by an order of magnitude or more.

And that is just one road-trip.  There is the trip to Pittsburgh and the trip to Louisville/Notre Dame, as well.

And that is just one team in one sport.

There is a volcanic crater in Arizona called the Sunset Crater.  Basically, for a reason that no one can quite determine, there was a volcanic eruption at the Sunset Crater in between 1064-1085.  It was made a National Monument by Herbert Hoover in 1930 to protect it from being blown up in a movie.  After it was made a National Monument, hiking was permitted up to the top of the cone.  None of the hikers did anything wrong.  Just walked up the side of the volcano.  But hiker by hiker, year after year, very noticeable grooves started to be worn into the sides of the crater.  They eventually closed the top of Sunset Crater off to hiking, and the grooves have started to disappear little by little, year after year.

Another story.  I was out on a dock in Newport in July, and I was showing the kids the grooves in the wooden railing on the dock and asking them what those were.  And none of them could figure out what the grooves were.  And so I told them it was from the rope from the crab rings.  One rope being pulled up one time is not going to cause that groove.  But you have another crabber come the next day and the day after and the day after that, etc.  Eventually, you have what was once a perfectly flat piece of wood with a ton of grooves worn into it.  Inch by inch, day by day.

The phrase "after awhile, it starts to be real money" comes to mind.

Actions speak louder than words.  The environment and global warming is either important, or it is not.  If the environment is not important enough to not be flying to Florida five years out of every eight, flatly, it is not important.

And that is outrageous.  And I cannot believe that there is not more of a pushback by the students and staff at Cal and Stanford.  Berkeley pumping out CO2 like it's going out of style.  Outrageous!

Tennessee bought out a single Allegiant plane to go to the College World Series just last year?

I am not virtue-signaling, at least I hope that I am not.  I care about the environment.  I want to limit the amount of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere.  It is aggravating that more people are not taking steps to individually limit CO2.  Everyone should be working together to do so.  That is the way that you affect change.  Person by person.  Little by little.

What is galling to me is hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy galls me.

How can the great students, staff, and people of Berkeley be ok with this?  I look to Berkeley and Stanford to set the environmental example, to care even more about the environment than I do, your average Joe Shmoe.  And here those sons of b#*tches are, pumping CO2 into the atmosphere like it is going out of style.

Hypocrites!

Every single student, staff, and homeowner in Berkeley and Stanford are hypocrites.  Where are the protests?  Where are the campus takeovers?

You're a bunch of pathetic, spineless hypocrites all of you!  Start talking about banning cows and then this?


The environment must not be important.  Global warming is a hoax!  It is a hoax!  I know that it is a hoax, because Cal and Stanford took a pay-cut to join the ACC.  

Sniveling and spineless slugs.  I really want Oregon State to destroy Cal in 18 days.  They not only sold Oregon State out, but they also sold everyone in the world out.

I never expected more out of Oregon, UCLA, USC, and Washington.  They sold their souls a long time ago.  But Cal and Stanford!  Two once-proud universities, used to stand for something, used to mean something, but those days must be gone, because here we are.