Author: Nicolas Bellouin, Professor of Climate Processes, University of Reading

Here’s what we know about the climate cost of white trails aircraft leave in the sky

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Ciprian23/Shutterstock Contrails, short for condensation trails, are the white streaks often seen in the sky behind aircraft. The international cloud atlas, which classifies clouds, has a category just for them: cirrus homogenitus, an example of man-made clouds. Contrails contribute to climate change, adding to the warming by the carbon dioxide emitted by aviation. Although the […]

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