Airplane Contrails Will Do Triple the Damage They Do Today By 2050, Study Finds - Slashdot"An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist:
The contrails left by airplanes last only hours. But they are now so widespread that their warming effect is greater than that of all the carbon dioxide emitted by airplanes that has accumulated in the atmosphere since the first flight of the Wright brothers. Worse still, this non-CO2 warming effect is set to triple by 2050, according to a study by Ulrike Burkhardt and colleagues at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Germany. Altogether, flying is responsible for around 5 percent of global warming, the team say, so this figure will soar even higher -- and no meaningful actions are being taken to prevent this..."
The study has been published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics."
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