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Those thin white clouds that jet engines draw across the sky are leaving their mark on the climate. A new study warns that the global heat-trapping effect of contrail clouds will triple by 2050 unless airlines and airplane builders dramatically reduce emissions or air traffic patterns change.
Air travel is growing so fast that current efforts to curb the climate-harming effects of airplane pollution won't be able to keep up with the expected increase in the formation of heat-trapping clouds, scientists wrote in a study published Thursday in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
Air travel affects the climate in two distinct ways: through the greenhouse gases released as airplanes burn fuel, and through the heat-trapping effect of the condensation that forms as hot gases and soot from partially burned jet fuel activate water particles that then freeze and form contrails.
Those clouds can persist for more than half a day, and under certain atmospheric conditions, they can merge and spread across thousands of square miles, expanding the heat-trapping effect across wide areas.
"Usually people say clouds are cooling the surface. For lower clouds that's true. They reflect sunlight. But high clouds that are optically thin are most likely to warm the atmosphere," Burkhardt said.
The prevalence of tiny ice crystals intensifies the heat-trapping effect. In the short term, the climate impact of the clouds formed by jet exhaust is greater than the warming effect of aviation's greenhouse gas emissions.
The impact of contrail cirrus clouds on global warming will be stronger over North America and Europe, the busiest air traffic areas on the globe, but it will also significantly increase in Asia as air travel increases, the researchers said. In 2005, air traffic was responsible for about 5 percent of human-caused climate warming. Contrail cirrus clouds are already the largest contributor to aviation's climate impact, and the study found that their warming effect will be three times larger in 2050 than in 2006.
How Can Airlines Reduce the Impact? The commercial aviation industry is targeting a 50 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 from 2006 levels, but the plans don't address the climate warming caused by contrail cirrus.
The new study found that reducing soot pollution would be the best way to reduce the non-CO2 part of aviation's climate warming effect.
Cleaner aircraft emissions would solve part of the problem, Burkhardt said. Reducing the number of soot particles emitted by aircraft engines decreases the number of ice crystals in contrail clouds, which in turn reduces their climate impact. But even a 90 percent reduction of soot would probably not be enough to limit the climate impact of contrail clouds to 2006 levels, she added.
The researchers also showed how improvements in fuel and propulsion efficiency, adjusting flight paths and the use of alternative fuels could shake up the equation. For example, rerouting flights or changing altitude to avoid regions most sensitive to the effects of contrail formation could limit their short-term heating impacts—but could also lead to increases in emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases.
"There is no feasible carbon-free technological replacement for commercial aviation on the horizon," said Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab who also launched a website to advocate for less air travel. "We need to recognize the full projected impacts of aviation on our climate, and that includes factoring in the non-CO2 forcings, which are very significant."
EPA Is Considering New Rules Air travel is not going to stop. It's growing fast and will continue to grow for the foreseeable future, said Bill Hemmings, aviation and shipping program director for the NGO Transport and Environment. The non-CO2 impacts from aviation is the elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about, he said.
"The traditional view of the airlines is, the science is too uncertain, and because of that, we shouldn't do anything," he said, adding that the new study will bolster current efforts by European lawmakers to reduce aviation emissions.
In the U.S., the EPA is also in the process of proposing new rules on commercial airplane emissions, and science showing how those emissions harm the environment could be used to strengthen regulations, or as evidence against the agency in future legal challenges if new rules are weak.
"The new study is a large improvement to the data on the climate impacts of clouds caused by jet pollution," said David Fahey, director of the Chemical Sciences Division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder.
Even though aviation emissions are small compared to those from energy or housing, the current debate around cutting them is meaningful because every ton of CO2, every tenth of a degree of warming matters in the attempts to stay within the bounds of the global carbon budget, he said.
Kalmus argues that what is really needed is demand reduction, preferably by putting a price on carbon.
"It would also help shift us to a new climate-aware way of thinking about travel, as something we don't take for granted and that we're willing to spend more time on—slower trips over land and ocean, staying at our destinations longer with more meaningful trips."
Top CDC Health and Climate Scientist Files Whistleblower Complaint He’s one of several federal scientists working on climate change who say they have been silenced, sidelined or demoted under the Trump administration.
One of the federal government's leading experts on the health impacts of climate change sought whistleblower protection on Friday because of retaliation he said he has faced for speaking out against the Trump administration's efforts to end climate research.
George Luber, an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the latest of a string of federal scientists working on climate change who say that they have been silenced, sidelined or demoted.
The Trump administration's drive to cut climate change out of federal research and policy has been underway at the Environmental Protection Agency and Interior Department since Trump took office. The scientists and their advocates say
it has now spread to the U.S. Navy, the Department of Agriculture, and the nation's premier health protection agency, the CDC.
Luber, who headed the CDC's Climate and Health Program before it was eliminated last year, has been barred from speaking publicly about climate change and has been forbidden from entering the CDC campus without first getting prior permission and being subjected to a vehicle and body search, his attorney said. He also faces a potential four-month suspension.
The petition he filed Friday asks the U.S. Office of Special Council to grant him whistleblower status, the first step aimed at ending what he says is unlawful treatment by the government. If granted, the office would initiate an investigation. The office has the power to seek corrective action, disciplinary action against federal officials, or both. It also has an Alternative Dispute Resolution process in which parties can work toward a settlement with a mediator.
A CDC spokesperson said the agency does not comment on personnel matters.
"The administration has undeniably been carrying out a concerted and intentional assault on anyone in the federal government who has any expertise," said Kevin Bell, staff counsel of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit that is representing Luber.
"It's not just because they disagree with climate change science, but they disagree with expertise in general," Bell said. "George's case is one of many—any program that looks like it hypothetically could be a threat to the narrative or to the president's ego, people lower down in the bureaucracy think it's good for their careers to do what they can to kill the programs."
Luber, who headed the CDC's Climate and Health Program before it was eliminated last year, has been barred from speaking publicly about climate change and has been forbidden from entering the CDC campus without first getting prior permission and being subjected to a vehicle and body search, his attorney said. He also faces a potential four-month suspension.
The petition he filed Friday asks the U.S. Office of Special Council to grant him whistleblower status, the first step aimed at ending what he says is unlawful treatment by the government. If granted, the office would initiate an investigation. The office has the power to seek corrective action, disciplinary action against federal officials, or both. It also has an Alternative Dispute Resolution process in which parties can work toward a settlement with a mediator.
A CDC spokesperson said the agency does not comment on personnel matters.
"The administration has undeniably been carrying out a concerted and intentional assault on anyone in the federal government who has any expertise," said Kevin Bell, staff counsel of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit that is representing Luber.
"It's not just because they disagree with climate change science, but they disagree with expertise in general," Bell said. "George's case is one of many—any program that looks like it hypothetically could be a threat to the narrative or to the president's ego, people lower down in the bureaucracy think it's good for their careers to do what they can to kill the programs."
Ways Trump Has Shut Out Climate Science Luber's whistleblower action comes a month after Maria Caffrey, a former National Park Service geography specialist, filed a whistleblower petition and a lawsuit over her firing earlier this year. Caffrey said she was retaliated against for her work leading a study on the potential impacts of sea level rise and storm surge on coastal national parks under future climate change scenarios.
In July 2017, an Interior Department policy analyst, Joel Clement, invoked the whistleblower law after he said he was demoted for speaking about protections for native Americans in Alaska and risks they face from climate change.
Across the government, the Trump administration crackdown on climate science has taken different forms. For example:
The U.S. Navy shut down its 10-year-old Task Force on Climate Change.
The Department of the Interior (DOI) removed mentions of climate change from its webpage on water conservation, and the EPA removed several of its climate change-focused webpages from public access.
Ways Trump Has Shut Out Climate Science Luber's whistleblower action comes a month after Maria Caffrey, a former National Park Service geography specialist, filed a whistleblower petition and a lawsuit over her firing earlier this year. Caffrey said she was retaliated against for her work leading a study on the potential impacts of sea level rise and storm surge on coastal national parks under future climate change scenarios.
In July 2017, an Interior Department policy analyst, Joel Clement, invoked the whistleblower law after he said he was demoted for speaking about protections for native Americans in Alaska and risks they face from climate change.
Across the government, the Trump administration crackdown on climate science has taken different forms. For example:
The U.S. Navy shut down its 10-year-old Task Force on Climate Change.
The Department of the Interior (DOI) removed mentions of climate change from its webpage on water conservation, and the EPA removed several of its climate change-focused webpages from public access.
He was removed from his position and put on administrative leave in March 2018 soon after he objected to the agency folding the CDC's climate and health program into its asthma program and using funds appropriated by Congress for climate other than for their intended purpose, Bell said.
Luber's CDC supervisor proposed his suspension in July, several weeks after Luber made a speech to accept a First Amendment Award from the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation and attended a series of meetings with the staff of congressional oversight committees on how CDC climate research was being eliminated.
Bell said Luber believes the speech—coverage of which is mentioned in the proposed suspension notice—is, in part, what triggered the proposed suspension.
To justify the disciplinary action, the CDC leveled a series of accusations against Luber, including saying he was absent without leave on occasions dating back to 2015 when he was teaching a class at nearby Emory University. According to the response that Luber filed with the agency, his personnel files include his ethics form and other documents that indicate that he obtained the required prior approval for outside teaching, but the CDC said that the approval document itself could not be located. Bell argues that the CDC's accusations are a pretext for the agency's retaliatory actions against Luber.
Kurtz said that whistleblower cases are often difficult because of the government's efforts to justify its actions with further attacks on the employees. "The Trump administration has done a lot to put plausible deniability into a lot of these actions," she said, "so for someone to prove they were retaliated against is a fairly high bar."
Luber was one of the lead authors of the chapter on human health in the National Climate Assessment released last fall. He has published numerous studies on heat-related health risks, climate change and the spread of infectious disease, and public health strategies for adaptation. He also appeared in an episode of the documentary series Years of Living Dangerously about the health impacts of climate change. But his work was curtailed soon after the Trump administration took office.
Luber has since been assigned to CDC work unrelated to climate or to his job title as a supervisory health scientist, Bell said. He works from home five days a week and can only come into the office when told to.
"He is absolutely isolated," Bell said. "The impact on his health and his family is absolutely overwhelming. All of the people he has worked with and relied on for 16 years are not even allowed to speak to him. He's just waiting for the day when he is finally fired."
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