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How Climate Change will Affect Air Travel
2015-07-17 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Global air travel contributes around 3.5 percent of the greenhouse forcing driving anthropogenic climate change, according to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But what impact does a warming planet have on air travel and how might that, in turn, affect the rate of warming itself? A new study by researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and University of Wisconsin Madison found a connection between climate and airline flight times, suggesting a feedback loop could...
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