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Boing Boing: airplane exhaust scars
by Decius at 10:33 am EDT, Oct 13, 2004

Today's Astonomy Picture of the Day that shows plane
contrails like scars across the SouthEast. NASA is running
a count the contrails program for kids over the next two
days.


 
RE: Boing Boing: airplane exhaust scars
by skullaria at 1:28 pm EDT, Oct 13, 2004

Am I missing something in that picture? Those look like high altitude cirrus clouds to me or ice crystals.
I don't see a single contrail.

:::conspiracy mode::: (You know what Art Bell says about contrails, don't you?)::::: :)

Decius wrote:
] Today's Astonomy Picture of the Day that shows plane
] contrails like scars across the SouthEast. NASA is running
] a count the contrails program for kids over the next two
] days.


  
RE: Boing Boing: airplane exhaust scars
by Decius at 2:54 pm EDT, Oct 13, 2004

skullaria wrote:
] Am I missing something in that picture? Those look like high
] altitude cirrus clouds to me or ice crystals.
] I don't see a single contrail.

I'm pretty sure that NASA knows what contrails look like.

] :::conspiracy mode::: (You know what Art Bell says about
] contrails, don't you?)::::: :)

I have no idea...


  
RE: Boing Boing: airplane exhaust scars
by Lost at 9:50 pm EDT, Oct 13, 2004

skullaria wrote:
] Am I missing something in that picture? Those look like high
] altitude cirrus clouds to me or ice crystals.
] I don't see a single contrail.
]
] :::conspiracy mode::: (You know what Art Bell says about
] contrails, don't you?)::::: :)
]
]
] Decius wrote:
] ] Today's Astonomy Picture of the Day that shows plane
] ] contrails like scars across the SouthEast. NASA is running
] ] a count the contrails program for kids over the next two
] ] days.

That pagee says that these contrails spawn cirrus clouds, and that the increase in cirrus clouds heats North America.


Boing Boing: airplane exhaust scars
by Lost at 8:52 pm EDT, Oct 13, 2004

] NASA scientists have found that cirrus clouds, formed by
] contrails from aircraft engine exhaust, are capable of
] increasing average surface temperatures enough to account
] for a warming trend in the United States that occurred
] between 1975 and 1994.


 
 
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