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Peer-Review Process Confirms Contrails Climate Effect

Posted by timothy on from the tarnished-golden-opportunity dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "According to NPR, researcher David Travis (who was mentioned in two previous articles has been published in today's issue of nature as confirming jet contrails effects on the earth's climate. The publication of this paper in arguably the most prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journal of all should help serve to assuage the spurious doubts many slashdotters voiced back in May."

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  1. Should be "Nature". by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 3, Funny


    "today's issue of nature"

    should be: "today's issue of Nature". Nature is a science magazine.

    (This is another example that shows us that dropping out of high school is a terrible thing.)

  2. Re:False analogy. by PD · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're misunderstanding or reading into the results. The result is that contrails hold heat like greenhouse gases, or yes, like a cloudy day. That's all it said. It wasn't trying to say that jet contrails do any of the funky chemistry that greenhouse gases cause.

    BTW, CFC-Ozone reactions aren't really greenhouse gas related. Think more about CO2 and methane.

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    If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
  3. Peer review doesn't mean the research is right... by Peter+T+Ermit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It just means that it passes the giggle test. Sometimes it doesn't even mean that. (Nature had its transgenic corn thing and Science had its bubble fusion recently.) It's a big mistake to confuse the imprimatur of a science journal with acceptance by the scientific community.