Contrails Affect Weather 39
TheSync writes "Wired News has a story about how contrails may influence the weather. The grounding of commercial flight operations after the 9/11 attack gave scientists a unique opportunity to compare weather with and without contrail-producing flight operations. Day/night temperature differences rose 3 degrees Celsius in some areas."
Man affects the environment! (Score:1)
Could this mean that burning through all that fossil fuel is actually helping to cool the earth?
I suggest we fly more airplanes to counteract the damage to the atmosphere that we are causing with our SUVs.
Re:Man affects the environment! (Score:1)
Duplicate article? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Duplicate article? (Score:2)
Re:Duplicate article? (Score:1)
Re:Duplicate article? (Score:2, Funny)
(Watch as I am modded down as redundant)
RTFA (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes, it's the ever-present /. cliche. The summary appears to have been written without reference to the underlying article.
This statement:
Day/night temperature differences rose 3 degrees Celsius in some areas...is completely backwards
From the article
Now, whether this is a good thing or a bad thing can certainly be debated, and I expect the very next post in this topic to come from some hopelessly silly GreenPeace activist admonishing us all to stop flying in planes and start hugging dolphins.
But at least let's start the discussion by actually reading the article first.
Re:RTFA (Score:1)
Not to mention... (Score:1)
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the interesting part is... (Score:2)
After reading this, I wish I'd have thought to look up at the skies back then and pay more attention to the weather, though I guess we all had more important concerns.
Experiment control (Score:1)
Re:Experiment control (Score:2)
i am curious though, there was a lot of dust and stuff kicked up when the towers went down, how did that affect weather paterns in the area?
Re:Experiment control (Score:1)
Heavy showers of masonry and burning people moving to generally dusty in the afternoon, the evening will bring a deep desire for revenge and general bloodletting.
Over the next few days a general disbelief with scattered crying.
Next seven days : back breaking toil accompanied by horrific scenes of carnage.
hunh (Score:2)
Well, great, I Say! (Score:3, Funny)
Because that should really decrease the load on the butterflies.
Re:Well, great, I Say! (Score:2)
Austrailia?? (Score:1)
Come on editors (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Come on editors (Score:2)
Is this a good study even? (Score:1, Insightful)
This is a first! (Score:2)
There's only one article's separation between the two for goodness sakes.
I really, sincerely, honestly hope that VA is not actually *paying* michael or timothy for this level of editorial attention.
Some might suggest that doing so goes against VA's fiduciary duties.
Duplicate and a missing story (Score:1)