After listening to the first podcast i decided to look at how many planes are airborne right now and how many are American. There were over 8,000 planes airborne right now of which about 50% or half (about 4,000) are American. No other country came anywhere close to that number of planes as far as I could tell - I think the next largest number was less than 400 from countries like China, India, Australia, or Japan. It surprised me but makes sense given the number of potential flight options available for each popular route every day with multiple airlines. US is contributing the largest proportion of sky pollution.
Jim, thanks for the troposphere rogue geoengineering lesson. I’ve been watching our blue skies in the Columbia Gorge get whited out. I’ve had some basic understanding of the nature of these events. Yeah and it fucking pisses me off too.
Glad I listened to your interview! Monica Perez did a great conversational interview.
After listening to the first podcast i decided to look at how many planes are airborne right now and how many are American. There were over 8,000 planes airborne right now of which about 50% or half (about 4,000) are American. No other country came anywhere close to that number of planes as far as I could tell - I think the next largest number was less than 400 from countries like China, India, Australia, or Japan. It surprised me but makes sense given the number of potential flight options available for each popular route every day with multiple airlines. US is contributing the largest proportion of sky pollution.
Jim, thanks for the troposphere rogue geoengineering lesson. I’ve been watching our blue skies in the Columbia Gorge get whited out. I’ve had some basic understanding of the nature of these events. Yeah and it fucking pisses me off too.
Glad I listened to your interview! Monica Perez did a great conversational interview.
Stella I just posted on this subject