You know....if I were to believe any part of the grand “cabon issue”....this would be the one thing that I’d connect to it and say it has potential. The interesting thing is that prior to the early 1970s....the vast public didn’t travel by jet. Only when discount airlines appeared and the prices went down in cost....did the public jump on and ride in abundance.
But here is the thing....if we ever did come to believe in this as the major contributor....the only answer (NOT taxes, trust me)....is to simply cut off jet travel. Either you go by boat, blimp, car or train to wherever you want. Airports would die off quickly and bankrupt a huge portion of America. The airline industry would dissolve away completely.
So I’m open to this if Al Gore wants to make this the “cause”. But for some funny reason, I don’t think he will. It really doesn’t help his agenda...stealing from the rich and middle-class.
Experts Fear Great Peril If SST Fumes Cool Earth E-MAIL Save By WALTER SULLIVAN
December 21, 1975, Sunday
Page 32, 1057 words
A federally sponsored inquiry into the effects of possible climate changes caused by heavy supersonic traffic in the stratosphere has concluded that even a slight cooling could cost the world from $200 billion to 500 times that much in damage done to agriculture, public health and other effects.
You've got it backwards. "If" CO2 induced warming is real, you want to INCREASE the effect of contrails (which cause COOLING). To do this, you would change the fuel formulation used during "cruise at altitude" to increase the sulfur content, but use low-sulfur fuel for takeoffs and landings.
It is a proven fact that the injection by volcanoes of sulfur compounds into the stratosphere increases high-altitude cloud coverage, which increases albedo and reflects more sunlight back into space---causing cooling.