Assuming that my schedule stays as it currently is & that’s a really dangerous assumption at the moment, it is just over 2 weeks until my next long haul flight. Regular readers will know, as part of our corporate social responsibility programme & indeed ever mindful of my own vapour carbon trails, I have eschewed the undoubted Connelly hide delights of our corporate jet

Forget Limousine Liberals. It appears as though we have entered the brave new world of the LearJet Liberal. And the spokesman for this motley crue just might be John Travolta. Recently, Travolta stood somberly at a British airport and admonished all of his fans to "do their bit" to counter the scourge of global warming.

Carbon emissions, the actor said, were such a threat that if every member of society did not do as much as possible to trim his or her pollution footprint, human beings might have to look to dome cities on other planets as a way to escape climate change. Then, without a dash of irony, Scientologist-turned-scientist disappeared into the cockpit of his customized Boeing 707 jet and fired up all four Pratt & Whitney jet engines and took to the sky. I don't know if Pratt & Whitney has come up with a hybrid jet engine yet, but I'm pretty sure that the engines on any 707, which was produced between 1958 and 1978, are not models of fuel efficiency…

… Brad Pitt, another eco-warrior, has repeatedly grabbed headlines for his castigating admonitions that the self-centered Americans driving their SUVs to big box stores in the suburbs were destroying the planet. So dedicated is he to the green cause that he drives a Toyota Prius. And, word is, Pitt drives it everywhere, even to the hanger housing his LearJet, assumedly Pitt's prefered mode of conveyance for destinations not within Prius range. Leonardo diCaprio, not to be outdone, also drives a Prius but, unlike Pitt, does not place a wholesale ban on commercial air travel. In fact, diCaprio says he sacrifices for the environment by flying commercial "when he can." Otherwise, he flies his private jet. Apparently, it's acceptable to believe in environmentalism when convenient.

so I am flying back to Blighty first class instead. Dear dear Johnny would want it that way