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The projected climate-driven increase in turbulence as a marketing point is interesting, but there are caveats. Research studies do point to turbulence increas
by photochemsyn 3y ago
The projected climate-driven increase in turbulence as a marketing point is interesting, but there are caveats. Research studies do point to turbulence increases in certain seasons and latitudes:
> "Climate modelling studies have indicated that the volume of airspace containing moderate-or-greater clear-air turbulence on transatlantic flight routes in winter will increase by 40%–170%, relative to pre-industrial times, when the CO2 is doubled"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-017-6268-2 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-017-6268-2
The CO2 doubling point is expected to arrive in ~60 years at current fossil fuel combustion rates, but I'd expect by that time a very large fraction of short-distance air travel will have moved to (electrified) high-speed rail as it's far cheaper per distance traveled. Also, as others note, this technology doesn't seem applicable to trans-oceanic jet travel.