How aircraft emissions contribute to warming
DEC 29, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023962
Nature News : The first analysis of emissions from commercial airline flights shows that they are responsible for 4–8% of surface global warming since surface air temperature records began in 1850—equivalent to a temperature increase of 0.03–0.06 °C overall.The analysis, by atmospheric scientists at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, also shows that in the Arctic, aircraft vapor trails produced 15–20% of warming.
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