India by boat

How to catch up on the past week in a paragraph? It's been full. For now, (with limited time to write) I just want to touch briefly on air travel and global warming. Next time I'll catch up more on events... From what I understand (with only a small amount of research) it seems that this is definitely something that we (I) should be thinking about. Various sources state that although air travel accounts for only somewhere between 2- 5% of carbon dioxide emissions, it is the fastest growing cause of global warming. Airliners emit the CO2 directly into the atmosphere, where it does an estimated 2.7 times the damage than CO2 emitted at ground level. (source: The Observer, 29 Jan 2006.) I can't help but feel the irony of this- here we are researching an environmental approach to textiles, while the only way to do it practically, is to fly here, and as it turns out, fly around here as well. Although we will be traveling by train for most of the rest of our trip, it is still a long way home by flight. What to do? Next time, maybe I'll travel here by boat, hmmm... maybe not.