'Flight shame' website spells out emissions toll on global climate

Getting ready to cruise in first class from New York to Beijing? That will be 15.6 square meters of Arctic ice down the drain, thank you. Enjoy your flight. Such statistics detailing the environmental toll wrought by jet setting, or even just business travel, are the stuff of a new website, Shameplane.com, which aims to calculate how much Arctic sea ice melt a traveler's flight causes. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION