this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2024
122 points (100.0% liked)
Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.
4947 readers
532 users here now
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's not even business - a lot of small planes are just hobbyists. So we're getting poisoned (to say nothing of the noise pollution) by people flying in circles for fun
finally someone who gets it.
I wonder if we'll ever come to a time when we can get the vroom vroom crowd to put down their poisoning toys, something tells me our species is fucked because they're never going to stop.
we have an air show here in Seattle every summer where the navy burns tens of thousands of gallons to VROOM f-18s around the lake.
I'm prior service, I'm not anti-military extremist, but do we really need to dump tens of thousands of gallons of gas into the summer (already shitty) air quality and the CO2 it becomes after combustion? for 'patriotism'?
Logically, no, but god forbid you take away the circuses from people, even if it's hurting their communities.
Roughly a quarter of General Aviation traffic (which is primarily piston single-engine aircraft) is flight training, 30% is personal use, and the other 45% is commerce. I'm hoping we can increase adoption of unleaded alternatives since I don't see most of those flights going away.