Planes may be the great neglected culprit in global warming, a recent study suggests. This study, made possible by the temporary cessation of commercial flight in the US after the 9/11 events found that during the three-day hiatus from Sept. … Continue reading
Dr. David Travis and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater suggested the fluctuation in temperature was caused by the absence of jet-engine contrails (the ice- crystal streams that form around the particles expelled into the air by passing planes) … Continue reading
Dr. Patrick Minnis of the Langley Research Center, run by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Hampton, Va., used satellite images to find that in just a few hours, six contrails formed by air-force jets spread out … Continue reading
Dr. Katta Murty, a professor of industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, said he believes that airplane travel is having a disproportionately large effect on global warming. He based his conclusion on a study … Continue reading