Airlines are finally admitting contrails are an environmental problem -- Southwest and American trying to figure out what can be done
Contrails — those lines of wispy white clouds that follow some jets — may not be so harmless..
That’s because those contrails, short for condensation trails, create clouds that trap heat in the atmosphere at the critical altitude where airliners fly.measuring more than a decade of airline flights. It’s part of an emerging field of study in climate science called “effective radiative forcing,” which measures the total warming effect instead of the older standard of totaling CO2 emissions.
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