How much pollution does a plane put out

by ethan
(denver)

I an doing a persuasive speech abut global warming and I need help about the outside pollution machines. The one that really stumps me is the airplane. I need to find out how much pollution it gives off. I also need a long list about fifteen to research on. If you can help thanks

Barry's Response - The first place I checked was the US EPA list of air pollution emission factors, known as AP-42.

See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_42_Compilation_of_Air_Pollutant_Emission_Factors

No luck. But after poking around on the epa.gov website, I was able to find this page on aircraft emissions. http://www.epa.gov/oms/aviation.htm

They may appear quite cumbersome, but emission factors work in a manner such as:

mass of emission per amount of fuel used
or
mass of emission per amount of distance travelled

Once you figure it out, it should be quite straightforward. I hope it helps. Good luck with this.