I wasn’t surprised to see Vice beating the drum for this new alarmism in the climate change movement, but that doesn’t mean it failed to annoy me. The subtitle said it all…
“Contrails are Air Travel’s Dirty Secret: A new German Aerospace Center study says the clouds formed in the wake of plans have an impact on the climate that’s not being properly addressed.”
I’d love to convince myself that I’m speculating irresponsibly when I say this, but with almost every Democrat presidential candidate affirming their belief that global warming is the greatest national security threat to the United States, and with carbon taxes being a favorite legislative “solution” proffered by so many progressives, I know I’m not.
If you think your plane ticket is expensive now, just wait.
Here’s the story lede:
Air travel is predicted to increase in the coming years, the exhaust from planes filling more of our skies with clouds known as contrails. These clouds are largely unaccounted for in climate policy and could triple the climate impact of air travel from 2006 levels by 2050, according to new research.
The article goes on to explain that contrails act as ice clouds that trap heat in our atmosphere like a “light blanket.” And if you’re tempted to say, “but contrails are so thin relatively speaking,” you just don’t understand science the way these people do.
After all, experts anticipate that by 2050, there will be triple the number of contrails in the skies as a result of increased air travel.
And besides, these experts already suggest that airplanes account for 5% of this kind of man-made heat-trapping, and contrails are responsible for the majority of that. They don’t have any real, concrete data to prove that, but this study tells them all they need to know.
And here’s why that matters to you. The anthropogenic (man-made) climate change movement has always been about control. It’s always been about power.
If you can control the amount of energy people use, you can control people. Seizing that kind of power arbitrarily could get messy, so it’s much easier to get people to surrender it willfully. How do you accomplish that?
Perhaps there’s more than one way, but convincing them that they are saving the planet and all humanity in the process is certainly one approach. And that’s where we are and will continue to be until voters wise up.
Automobiles are as expensive as they are today in part because of the wild claims of this movement. The same is already true for airplane tickets. And this recent development from the Warmers only ensures it’s going to get worse in the years to come.
Who will be affected? Everyone. As air travel becomes more common, it should become less expensive. Don’t count on it.
The Third World will continue to be locked out of participation, the global exchange of goods and services will be negatively impacted (meaning price hikes), and recreation/tourism will take a hit as well.
But, as always, the rich will be largely impervious. If not exempted through loopholes, they will be able to afford to purchase inflated ticket prices, or simply buy offsetting “carbon credits” for their excesses.
You and I? We’ll be watching the contrails in the sky from the interstate traffic jam far below.
Get ready.
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I’m beginning to believe that the environmental extremists must have some type of “think tank” or “idea campus” where folks sit around all day dreaming up the latest climate concoction to feed to a (largely) receptive media. REAL science and cognitive thought seems to be increasingly taking a “Holiday”…
Immediately after 9-11, air traffic was grounded immediately. Someone saw that as an opportunity to study the effects of jet contrails. I believe that they found that ground temperature increased while all North American passenger planes were parked.
Yes Sonnyhill, that person was Bob Armstrong and his essay is onlne here:
https://tech-know-group.com/essays/Greenhouse_Gases_Cool_Earth.pdf
Thanks for posting this Hans.
And once again we see the bowl of freshly picked cherries. Where in their calculations do they account for the reflective properties of contrails? I’m guessing they are right next to the proper UHI adjustments for surface stations, in the trash can.
For just a millisecond, I thought I saw the word as “chemtrails”… oh well, probably just as nutty
This article ignored the warming effect of CO2 emissions by aircraft – which will be increasingly the main reason for not flying or very high ticket prices. The entrails issue is presently a side issue, under study.
Eric, considering that there can be no earth surface warming off atmospheric CO2 in the first place, the exhaust fumes from aircraft only have a theoretical “warming effect” just because there is an obvious positive temperature difference. Think Thermosphere, does the energy from there warm the surface? Ever felt it? The so-called “well understood warming effect” fits into the same wishful thinking category as spreading sunlight over the entire earth in order to achieve some magical “average” temperature. Mathematics is marvelous but dangerous in the hands of fanatics who “trust” their maths at the exclusion of the very reality that their maths is supposedly trying to enumerate. The cooling power of the atmosphere is grossly underestimated due to it being held in place by gravity on the one hand and bordering on the infinite heatsink that is space. Get the facts, make the right decisions; just check the conclusions in these two papers: https://tech-know-group.com/papers/Latour_CO2_Feb2017.pdf and http://objectivistindividualist.blogspot.com/2013/02/infrared-absorbing-gases-and-earths.html to begin to understand the reality of how the atmosphere interacts with hemispherical solar energy input and spherical energy output.