Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Cirrus Aviaticus

http://www.astro.ku.dk/%7Eholger/IDA/S/page0092.html

Part of a quite interesting slideshow about plane contrails. I always assumed that the world was too big to really be affected by one li'l plane, but these photos would suggest a different story.

5 comments:

Lloyd . said...

deleted at your request. heh, you've mentioned it again.

Doctor Curry said...

That's one of the things that annoys me about how cheap and plentiful air travel has become - it may be good for us when we travel, but train travel really is the better way to go for short to intermediate distances.

Andrew C said...

There was a study done, just after 9/11, when all aircraft flights were suspended.

Matt F said...

Shh! Bah - stupid email postscript disclaimers. Deleted.

john smith said...

Hence my post elsewhere that we should use aircraft to seed the atmosphere deliberately, to produce more contrails and generate a mild "nuclear winter" effect to cool the earth and reverse global warming.