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 March 4, 2020

Jet Altitude Changes Cut Climate Changing Contrails

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Today's Nerdy Curio is brought to you by 60-Second Science. Increasing or decreasing the altitude of aircraft a few thousand feet to avoid thin layers of humidity could make a deep cut to contrails' contribution to climate change.

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Aired February 26, 2020

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    Libeth T
    When 9/11 shut down airlines I saw a study that showed the lack of contrails lead to warming the atmosphere. That seems to be real-world testing for the overall effects.
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    Chris R
    Sounds more like that study after 9/11 couldn’t have actually performed meaningful measurements to come to such a conclusion since flights weren’t grounded long enough to have created a climactic difference, and especially since it’s in direct contrast with the report now, which presumes longer duration of study and therefore more data and more statistical relevance.
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    Devin O. M
    Mind blown
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