@sean I have no idea what the answer is.

A possibility is that we use CO2 as a proxy for all greenhouse gasses, and convert other things into it to make conversations easier. It's within the realm of possibility that burning that much jet fuel emits a bunch of *some other gas* that's 10x worse than simple carbon dioxide. So it's not really 16 tons of CO2, it's 1.4 tons of some other worse gas, and 2 tons of CO2 that turns into 16 tons of CO2 equivalent.

Your theory: also great.

@preinheimer I sure hope not, but I could believe that too.

@lmorchard confirmed that my hunch was right.

The “I hope not” part is kind of like how warming up a cold can of soda to body temperature takes more calories than the soda contains so how could you gain weight from drinking too much cold soda? (answer: we really mean kilocalories most of the time)