Jet-Setting Nunez Fouls Planet, Makes Up For It

Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez - who will be polluting the atmosphere this week when he jets off to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum - paid some environmental penance by purchasing $136 in credits from the Davos Climate Alliance.

Nunez is attending to conference of world leaders, oil barons, environmentalists, plutocrats, corporate titans and celebrities to talk about his California global warming legislation. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declined to attend because of his fractured leg.

Nunez used the Alliance's calculator, which reports that a round-trip flight from Los Angeles to Geneva will produce 9.06 tons of C02 on his behalf. This year, the money is being used to rehabilitate a mini hydro power plant in West Sumatra, Indonesia (in photo). That project is expected to reduce about 4,200 tons of CO2 per year.

(Photo: Davos Climate Alliance)