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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. 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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