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Air Travel and Climate Change

Green Market Oracle

A plane traveling from North America to London and back generates about 1.4 Nitrogen oxides produced by air travel increases ozone concentrations in the upper troposphere which warms the planet more than it would at lower altitudes. tonnes of CO2, that is the equivalent of more than 3 months of driving.

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Why is the idea of the Anthropocene so contentious?

Grist

The geologic epoch had reigned for 11,700 years, ever since the sprawling ice sheets covering North America and Europe began melting rapidly, and Crutzen thought its time was up. But it wasn’t until 2000 that the idea really took off. Crutzen, along with the diatom researcher Eugene F.