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Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 4 months ago

Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest

www.newscientist.com

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Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest

www.newscientist.com

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Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 4 months ago

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Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator

The paper is here

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Is there an actual calculator already using this model?

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