As if there weren't already enough reasons to fight climate change, here's an additional one: they make longer transatlantic flights Indeed, the American website fortune.com recently informed us of the direct effects of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels on flight duration.
Paul Williams, meteorologist and researcher at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, has indeed looked into the possible effects of rising sea level CO2 on the world of aviation by analyzing the flight times between the cities of London and New York. (Remember that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will continue to increase as long as there are no interventions serious who will be companies.
The results de Williams are formal and show that the increase in CO2 in the air reduced the flight duration to the international airport of New York-John F. Kennedy as well as the airport of London Heathrow, about 4 minutes. On the other hand, it stretch the journey to’West of a little over 5 minutes. Conclusion? The journey is therefore longer by about one minute.
While an extra minute on a flight's duration might seem utterly insignificant, when you stop to consider transatlantic air traffic as a whole, 60 extra seconds per flight quickly adds up to 2000 hours annually, involving the use of 7.2 million ( ! ) gallons of kerosene per year. What's more, all this carbon dioxide is the equivalent average of the annual emissions produced by approximately 7,100 British households. So, every second counts!
