Posted on 12/01/2014 4:21:13 AM PST by Kaslin
The hunt for Manbearpig continues. Amusing Alarmist predictions have ranged from the apocalyptic to the bizarre, but the latest is downright idiotic. According to a couple of scientists from Columbia University, air travel might be relegated to the trash bin of history in the future because of the supposed global warming that is occurring today. According to Breitbart.com:
The two scientists, Coffel and Horton, looked at a phenomenon known amongst pilots as ‘density altitude’, which affects a plane’s ability to take off. Essentially, on hotter days the air is less dense, making it harder to get a plane airborne.
Okay… So warm air makes it tougher for planes to take flight. (I’m sure you can see where this is going.)
Commercial aviation overcomes the problem by issuing weight restrictions at the airport on particularly hot days. Coffel and Horton sought to predict how many more weight restricted days there will be by 2050-2070, and decided, through use of [climate] models, that the "number of weight restriction days between May and September will increase by 50-200 percent at four major airports in the United States by 2050-2070," and that "these performance reductions may have a negative economic effect on the airline industry."
So, according to a couple of computer models that these scientists worked up (because, clearly, computer models can never be questioned), hotter temperatures in the future will adversely impact the ability for airplanes to takeoff… Thus putting substantial strains on the industry.
Intellectual honesty must not be a prerequisite for becoming a professor at Columbia.
First of all: Their theory is based off of some computer models that they mocked up on their own… Is this anything like the Hockey stick graph, which has been fully and completely debunked? Or maybe it is like the predictions that the Arctic would be ice free by 2013? Or maybe it is like the prediction that we would run out of fossil fuels by the late 70’s? … I mean, it’s not exactly like these folks have a great track record. If it was that great, we’d still be calling in “global cooling” like we did in the 1970s, and half the earth’s population wouldn’t be around.
Their dubious science notwithstanding, the duo seem to have a precarious grasp of commercial evolution. Coffel and Horton (doesn’t this duo sound like an 1890’s vaudeville act?) apparently believe that the airplane industry will be incapable of any meaningful innovations in the next 50 years. According to their “models”, the airline industry will be using the same engines, materials, fuselages, and practices of today, half a century into the future.
Apparently the last half century of innovation and progress within the transportation industry has hit its limit… No more advances in the technical field of aviation from this point forward. (Of course, with the way this administration is unleashing regulations and rules upon American business, that last statement might not be all that crazy.)
The comical ignorance of Cofel and Horton, apparently, has no limits. Their big “worry” is that the world temperatures will heat up (unlike the last 18 years), and put financial strain on the aviation industry… And yet, they don’t seem too concerned with the immediate impact of new environmental regulations. Where’s the concern over how the airline industry is going to cope with new cap-and-trade rules, jet fuel taxes, or increased EPA oversight?
I guess we’re only allowed to worry about the cost of doing business when it fits in with the Al Gore narrative against Manbearpig.
‘cause we’ll all FINALLY have flying cars!
The temperature inversion of greenhouse gasses will naturally cause the oxygen in the atmosphere to migrate to the northern regions of the earth in order to dissipate the heat caused by fossil fuel burning thereby causing the air to heat to the point where the wings of airplanes will no longer be able to fly because it would be too thin for the process of lift to occur, causing widespread chaos in the world due to the fact that airplanes will no longer be able to transport Global Warming activists everywhere in order to warn everyone of the impending catastrophe.
(Not even the birds will not be able to fly.)
See? Ya know?
/S/
IMHO
I went to a dinner party about eight years ago now at a friend’s home in Virginia. A female friend of ours wanted to introduce her new boyfriend, who had travelled down from where he lives in Rhode Island. He was a college professor, and that evening he stated that due to global warming, New England in five years would have palm trees.
The couple broke up a few weeks later.....
$$ for baggage? Come on.. why? If I started an airline, baggage would be free...and a few others charges would not be charged.
truth is, planes won’t fly in a few years b/c it will be too darn COLD for them to do so!
Dear Saint Obama. Please save me from the demise
of my environment. Thanks, your friend Stewie.
Have you checked out amtrack ticket prices lately? Railway robbery.
Sounds like settles science to me.
Global Warmunists should be prohibited from flying....or owning/driving cars.
(or the modren electronic version)
Yes. It’s very sad. We’ve reached the ultimate limit of innovation and invention. The Patent Office will be deactivated and all the bureaucrats there will be jobless; panhandling in front of the Smithsonian because there’s nothing new left to invent. We haven’t quite reached the end of the world, but you can see it from here.
When these turdbrains get together for conferences, are they able to conduct their “business” with a straight face, pretending to believe this silly bullcrap themselves?
Or does it occasionally get the best of even them, to the point where they have to pull all the blinds down and lock all the doors and laugh their asses off at the millions of low level democRats who actually believe this drivel?
I prefer that old school version. No batteries to die.
Wow! These fools are insane.
Even if this were true...the airlines would just take the flights off earlier in the morning, when its cooler.
Dumb problem to worry about.
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