MONTREAL, Sept 27 — The white, feathery lines behind airplanes that look like bits of harmless cloud are anything but, warn experts, who say they could have a greater...
‘We don’t want them to pay for our funerals...’: At Pepper Estate in Penang, residents fear falling trees and want authorities to act nowContrails are clouds that form at high altitudes in cold, humid areas called ice supersaturated regions.
These trails trap some of the heat that rises from the Earth at night, preventing it from radiating back out of the atmosphere — thus acting as a greenhouse gas, causing warming, explains Donald Wuebbles, a professor at the University of Illinois.“But if they form at night, they’ll maybe last a little longer, and at night they can cause a warming effect,” he adds.
For example, at Air France, just four per cent of flights are responsible for some 80 per cent of the airline’s contrail impact on global warming, notes Irene Boyer-Souchet, who is leading up the company’s efforts to mitigate the damage.Air France pilots made more than 3,000 observations over 18 months with the aim of helping Meteo-France improve its forecasts for at-risk areas so that pilots could eventually avoid them.
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