My carbon footprint was extremely high; at 27,952. However, 23,022 was in the transportation section in my carbon footprint. Since I traveled a ton during the summer, my transportation took up more than ⅔ of my carbon footprint. I feel that since going on a plane takes a much greater amount of fuel to take off and maintain the same speed in the air, it contributes a greater portion of my carbon footprint than any of the other factors such as food, home, and purchase.
    However, I try not to take flights that involve stops midway, since it takes a plane a greater amount of fuel to propel up than it does to maintain the same speed in the air. This summer, my plane ride to Taiwan took 14 hours, which was an enormous amount of time for a plane to be continuously flying in the air. However, if I were to have stopped multiple times, it would have contributed an even greater portion to my carbon footprint, because I would have had to take off multiple times instead of just once.
     Also, I try to walk to and from school everyday, but I mostly drive when I am more than 2-3  miles away from somewhere. Although this contributed to my carbon footprint, traveling still affected a much greater amount of my footprint. By starting to bike and walk to places more often, all of us can help contribute a small amount to the ecosystem, and help lower the emission of fuel into the atmosphere.
     Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment … on-q-and-a
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/sunda … ml?mcubz=1

I had the same dilemma, I thought that i had a small footprint, until i put in how much i flied, it increased my footprint by 10,000, my standalone footprint without the flight was seven thousand. I thought that seven thousand was good, but yet, my score turned out horrible because of one factor.
    I had no idea that traveling was this bad for the earth, and was apparently oblivious. I also had only taken off and landed once, but it was still a crazy amount of damage, with this in mind i realized that my entire family went, which is 23 people, and that the two way ticket meant that our family's score for just travelling was 23,000,. And even that doesn't include the diesel vans we were driving around in England.
   I think that if more people knew this that they would try to drive places more, or not fly as much, but this isn't that common of knowledge, and i think that this should be displayed at plane ticket booths, and plane ticket stores online. With that in mind there are a lot of people in a plane, and i think that flying would cause less damage than everyone in  the plane driving separately.
   Over all, next time i fly i think that i will be aware of how harmful it is and try to do it less, i also want to inform my family, as i think they have not much of a clue. Everyone knows that flying isn't great for the earth, but i think by the time you are booking or about to book your flight, you're thinking about it crashing, or how fun your trip will be, because flying isn't shown as such a harmful thing, hopefully this gets better, but for now, the only people i can change are around me.

My family has much planned in the way of traveling in the next couple of years, but we also try to balance that out by reducing our carbon footprint in other areas of our life. We have solar panels and lights in my house to help reduce the amount of electricity we use. Turning off lights when they aren't used, along with unplugging  other electronics and kitchen machines (Toaster, coffee maker) our steps we also take to ensure energy conservation.