Research Provides Complex Answers To The Effects Of Aircraft Contrails

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Efforts to understand and mitigate aviation’s non-CO 2 emission effects have focused on contrails, one of the most visible signs of aviation’s impact on the Earth’s atmosphere. Contrails form through the mixing of warm, moist engine exhaust with the surrounding colder air to form ice crystals. In...
Graham Warwick

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