Posted on 07/14/2015 2:41:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 07/14/2015 3:25:30 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Long-haul flights are getting longer due to stronger winds caused by global warming, according to a study.
Scientists linked a small increase in return-journey times of long-haul flights with an increase in the variation of the jet stream, the high altitude air that flows from west to east.
Just one minute's extra flight time would mean jets spend approximately 300,000 hours longer per year burning roughly a billion additional gallons of jet fuel, they said.
Kris Karnauskas, associate scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said: "Longer flight times mean increased fuel consumption by airliners. The consequent additional input of CO2 into the atmosphere can feed back and amplify emerging changes in atmospheric circulation."
"We already know that as you add CO2 to the atmosphere and the global mean temperature rises, the wind circulation changes as well - and in less obvious ways.
The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, analysed return flights from Hawaii to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle by four different airlines. They found that when an eastbound flight became 10 minutes shorter, the corresponding westbound flight became 11 minutes longer.
Globull Warmists be lying.
Cool, the positive feedback we have all been looking for....
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Bullshit piles growing due to global warming.
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So more flights go in one direction (against the wind)?
They have a headwind in both directions. Like my parents walking to school uphill in both directions.
Like I’m going to believe Kris Corkinass, What a name!
If jet streams are increasing flight time in one direction, don’t they equally decrease on the return leg?
The ‘Say anything global warming retards’ strike yet again! Their dreck’s getting older by the day—every day new words, but still the same old crap!
Not if the wind is blowing the right direction.
So wouldn’t the flights be faster in the other direction? Hmm.
Horseshit.
Stronger winds mean longer flight times one direction but shorter flights the opposite.
It’s when he takes the cork out that the winds really blow.
LOL!
We’re doomed.
This is so stupid. Someone’s headwind is someone else’s tailwind. They should cancel each other out.
Be quiet peasant! Your betters are telling you how it is...
No. Come on.
This has got to be satire.
NO WAY.
Kris KORK-IN-ASS???
Come on John Semmens. 'Fess up. This was yours.
From the article:
1. We already know that as you add CO2 to the atmosphere and
2. the global mean temperature rises,
3. the wind circulation changes as well - and in less obvious ways.
Have any of these actually been observed?
No wonder he’s full of $hit!
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