New Climate Cult Study Says Flying At Higher Altitudes Is Bad

We can end quite a bit of this issue (which is still mule fritters) per cult dogma if we restrict all Warmists, starting with the Elites, from taking fossil fueled flights

Airplanes fly higher and make contrails that last longer now. A study says that’s bad for the climate.

Airlines have tamped down on carbon emissions by flying planes at higher altitudes. But this comes at a cost: the higher-flying aircraft are creating more contrails that last longer, worsening the industry’s impact on climate change, a new study found.

“This doesn’t mean that more efficient aircraft are a bad thing – far from it, as they have lower carbon emissions per passenger-mile,” said Edward Gryspeerdt, the lead researcher, in a statement. “However, our finding reflects the challenges the aviation industry faces when reducing its climate impact.”

Contrails — short for condensation trail — are the white streaks in the sky behind planes. Airplanes create the lines of water vapor when they fly through high altitude humidity zones.

An MIT study from March of this year found that contrails account for just over a third of the aviation industry’s contribution to climate change. Contrails trap heat in the atmosphere, which in turn warms the planet.

Wait, are they saying that *gasp* water vapor is a greenhouse gas? Hmm.

Private jets, already heavily scrutinized for high carbon emissions, represent a big part of the contrail problem. Imperial College London researchers found that the small planes produce similar-sized contrails to their bigger counterparts.

Well, lets stop lawmakers, administration heads, and governors, presidents, vice presidents, premiers, prime ministers, etc, from flying on private jets first. See how they like it. See if they are fine with this. Of course, any law would look more like France’s, which blocked all short haul flights of under 2 hours for the peasants, but, allowed private jets to make those flights.

Another possible way to get at the contrail problem, scientists from the Imperial College London say, is to reduce the soot emitted from aircraft engines. This could make the white streaks fall out the sky faster, reducing their warming impact.

Just a bunch of cultish nags, always wanting to tell Other People how to live their lives.

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