CLIMATE CHANGE

Scientists show how smarter flight decisions could help fight climate change

Source: https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/5381494-flights-fight-climate-change-aviation/

A team of University of California (UC) researchers say they have developed a tool that could help steer the aviation sector toward making smarter decisions when it comes to climate-related impacts.

The Global Warming per Activity tool, highlighted Wednesday in the journal Nature, measures how long and how strongly each aviation activity affects the atmosphere — whether that activity lasts hours or a century.