From Badvertising: Polluting our minds and fueling climate chaos:

The only provably legitimate offset [for carbon emissions from a flight] would be an engineered solution that removed a measurable amount of carbon directly from the atmosphere on roughly the same timeframe as the plane exhaust put it there, and indeed this option is now available for purchase from a company called Climeworks - at a price of around $1,000 per ton. This is approximately 100 times the price of an equivalent offset from a low-cost carrier like Ryanair; readers can no doubt draw their own conclusions.

Climeworks “is the first direct air capture company worldwide to achieve certification of its carbon dioxide removal activities…”.

From what I’ve read, it is the real deal. It's not just for businesses, but for individuals too. Use them to do your own offsetting.

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This was our biking route yesterday, our first day of biking:

We have two guides, and there are eight of us. Three of us — including Ellen and me — are using regular bikes, and five are using e-bikes.

Ellen was a champ yesterday! She made it up the biggest hill without stopping. 🚴‍♀️

Here she is when we got back to our hotel:

Here is today’s route, Including two ferry trips, So we didn’t actually bike 63 miles.

I’ll post more about today’s activity later.

Ellen and I had a goal to take a swim in the ocean before the summer ended. Yesterday that box was ticked when Ellen and I crossed the road in front of our accommodation, the Glenisle Hotel, walked across the rocky, sandy, seaweedy beach and took a dip in Lamlash Bay. The video evidence is here (link).

Bonus points if you recognize the quote

This morning we took the train from Glasgow Central to Ardrossan Harbour in order to take the ferry to the Isle of Arran. Here's Ellen chatting with the ticket examiner in the train as we left Glasgow (link).

Here's the Ardrossan Harbour ScotRail station (link).

Here's another view of Ardrossan Harbour. Notice the wind turbines in the background:

However the ferry had a mechanical issue. Here's the ferry with its hood up so that it could be serviced:

We took a short bus ride to Troon, where we boarded another ferry:

We were able to move to seats with a window. Here's a scene near the Lake District. If you look closely enough, you'll see sheep.

A look up and down the carriage of the Avanti West Coast train that brought us from London to Glasgow. We were pulling into Glasgow and people were getting ready to disembark.

Video of Glasgow Central Station.

Ignore the guy's rear end. I took the photo because of the wonderful variety of fish sold here. Not something a guy raised in the US midwest is used to seeing.

Ellen at the Main Gate to University of Glasgow. Very impressive old buildings!

We're going to the Isle of Arran and will definitely have some of this ice cream.

Video of one of the quads at the University of Glasgow.

Still at the University of Glasgow. Good for them!

More U. of Glasgow.

Glasgow street scene.

On the way back to our hotel from U. of Glasgow, we stopped for some fish & chips. Ellen took a silly photo of me.