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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So does a 54% reduction in trails offset the 2% higher carbon emissions?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Probably hard to measure as the contrails stay in the atmosphere for hours and the CO2 stays there for what, hundreds or thousands of years?