Scientists show how smarter flight decisions could help fight climate change |
A team of University of California researchers say they have developed a tool that could help steer the aviation sector toward making smarter decisions when it comes to climate-related impacts.
The Global Warming per Activity tool, highlighted on Wednesdaay in Nature, measures how long and how strongly each aviation activity affects the atmosphere — whether that activity lasts hours or a century.
The scientists also quantified uncertainty in every component, enabling users to assess risk by calculating the probability that a given tradeoff would help mitigate warming.
“This new decision tool uses the information to provide accurate risk quantification for climate tradeoff........