Climate Change to Blame for Bad Breath
Posted on 05/21/2024 6:12:21 PM PDT by jerod
Most people who have flown have likely felt their stomach drop when the "fasten seatbelt" sign switches on during a bumpy flight, but turbulence can be severe and experts warn it's becoming more common.
"Turbulence fatalities on commercial flights are fortunately very rare, but have sadly increased by one today," Paul Williams, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Reading, U.K., told CBC News in an email interview.
On Tuesday, one passenger was killed and 30 were injured after a Singapore Airlines flight from London hit severe turbulence en route, forcing it to make an emergency landing in Bangkok, officials and the airline said. A passenger on board the flight told Reuters the plane dropped dramatically, launching everyone not wearing a seatbelt into the ceiling.
A 73-year-old British man died during the incident, likely due to a heart attack, Suvarnabhumi airport general manager Kittipong Kittikachorn told a news conference. Seven people were critically injured with head injuries.
Turbulence — a sudden, violent shift in air flow — is the most common cause of airline accidents involving injuries, according to a 2021 study by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). From 2009 through 2018, the U.S. agency found that turbulence accounted for more than a third of reported airline accidents and most resulted in one or more serious injuries.
And it's likely only going to get worse due to climate change, climate and aviation experts have noted. There is strong evidence that turbulence is increasing because of climate change, Williams said, citing his own research that severe clear-air turbulence in the North Atlantic has increased by 55 per cent since 1979.
"Our latest future projections indicate a doubling or tripling of severe turbulence in the jet streams in the coming decades, if the climate continues to change as we expect," he said...
If only we’d taxed ourselves tens of trillions, lived in caves, ate bugs and wore animal skins, this death wouldn’t have happened. Of course, we wouldn’t have invented aircraft and mastered thermodynamics and metallurgy to build jet engines, either.
But there’s no amount of money too great to save one life.
“Clear air turbulence” is a convenient cover for possible pilot error. It doesn’t show up on radar, it is invisible and unpredictable. The “climate change” rubbish is just for the sake of the narrative.
Totally ridiculous.
Anything "bad" happens, the B.S. merchants link it to "climate change".
(((YAWN)))) all this turbulence is caused by the gas rising up off of Capitol Hill.
Agreed, with everyone else here - this is total and complete B.S.
Oh for crying out loud! These people are NUTS!
If unnamed experts somewhere, said it, it must be true.
Climate change is responsible for everything, even chickens mating with pigs.
B.S. Climate Change is causing fruit and nuts to grow in Spring and Summer. Except now we've got fruits and nuts everywhere, especially in government and media. Maybe Biden will legislate air bags be installed in all aircraft, in and around every seat.
The DEI pilots and air traffic controllers have nothing to do with it. 🤡
Climate Change to Blame for Bad Breath
False.
This is lie inflation, when the lies get stacked up too many per day.
His claims to fame:
"I am also an award-winning science communicator, regularly giving public lectures, speaking at science festivals such as New Scientist Live, debating climate change sceptics, and appearing in the media (see playlist of TV interviews above). I have been quoted on the front page of the New York Times, I have explained the Coriolis force in The Times, and Chelsea Clinton and Cher have tweeted about my research. I am a consultant to Guinness World Records, advising on extreme atmospheric events for the famous series of best-selling annual reference books."
You can pretty much stop reading right there.
Unnamed experts, and unspecified evidence.
I was waiting for this head.
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