Climate change and air travel

[teacher]

The climate alarmists are out in force this week.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/rising-t ... -1.3504439

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/w ... ndmail.com&

I'm sure we'll all have electric cars and be off oil within a decade too.....

[single_swine_herder]

Wow ..... this is huge news!

I'll bet nobody in the aviation journalism world has any idea that sometimes loads are reduced for WAT limits......

I suppose that with runaway global warming, that 30% of the world's fleet won't be able to get airborne because it is so hot and performance so adversely affected.

SSH

[sanjet]

I find it highly disturbing the media comes out with this non-sense, clickbate articles.

Every click on an article actually gives the writer some revenue. I truly think we are seeing the end of proper journalism.

[fish4life]

By the timeframe the article said the airplanes in the sky probably won't have much resemblance to what is currently flying

[FICU]

And 15 years ago in Phoenix I remember US carriers pulling out of the take off line as the temp increased a degree. With each increase of a degree another would pull out of line... probably happened 25 years ago too. F'in media!

[mato]

It ain't news unless I find it on Reddit first.

[confusedalot]

Ah yessss......the media.

I just happened to stumble on a ''mighty ships'' episode on the discovery channel or some such thing. One of the quotes were that the shipping (maritime) industry is one of the highest contributors to geenhouse gas emissions. Confirmed by googling, looks like big boats, if they were a country, would be ranked between Japan and Germany in total emissions.

I always loved sailboats.

[Bede]

I'm quite familiar with the work of the authors. Unfortunately they keep putting this stuff out and the media pounces.

Here's the scientific justification for my position.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3zLq ... 0YzdWpvbTQ

[Eric Janson]

Surface temperature was 45C when we took off yesterday.

No problems operating an 11+35 flight.

Last year I did the same flight when it was 47C.

[cgzro]

since polar routes are often pushed further south than optimal due to extreme cold, would there not be some improvement in fuel use due to warmer polar air and less need to fly non optimal routes?