{"id":2702,"date":"2015-07-21T10:41:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T09:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:01:05","slug":"study-global-warming-leads-to-longer-flights-and-more-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/07\/study-global-warming-leads-to-longer-flights-and-more-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: global warming leads to longer flights and more emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Climate change is causing wind patterns over the Pacific to alter, according to a study by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution published last Monday. The study, in the journal Nature Climate Change<\/em>, concludes that the wind change is leading to longer westbound flight times for commercial airliners between mainland USA and Hawaii, which is causing them to burn more fuel and emit more greenhouse gases.\u00a0\u00a0Faster eastbound times do not cancel out the effect – eastbound flights became 10 minutes shorter, yet the corresponding westbound flight became 11 minutes longer.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally, when we think about the airline industry and climate change, we think about how global aviation contributes to climate change through such means as carbon dioxide and aerosol emissions \u2014 and for good reason,\u201d study lead author Kristopher Karnauskas said. \u201cHowever, in our study, we\u2019re flipping this around. We\u2019re trying to probe the extent to which climate change might influence the airline industry beginning with shorter-term natural cycles that we can readily observe with existing real-world data.\u201d<\/p>\n

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