Posh's Horrific Carbon Footprint

Never mind the anxiety that Victoria Beckham is risking deep-vein thrombosis from the 25,000 air miles she's clocked up in the last few weeks: what exactly is all that jet-setting doing to our battered old planet?

Between 23 January and 6 March, Beckham clambered into nine planes in order to fly from Milan to London, from London to LA and back again, to Milan and then back to London, and then to LA (via New York), before returning to London and ending her six-week whirlwind in Milan. And you were complaining about your commute.

Even if we make generous assumptions (the plane was modern; no stopovers), it doesn't look good. We know that Posh will have traveled first class, which is very energy-hungry, due to the extra space allocated to those vast seats.

So the grand total for this airborne marathon, according to the Energy Savings Trust, is about 13.2 tonnes of CO2, or more than the average Briton emits in a year.

To be fair to Victoria, she has never claimed to be some sort of eco-role model (lucky really, because in 2008 the Carbon Trust calculated that David had the world's largest personal carbon footprint). But can't we ground her for a couple of months, for everyone else's sake?