An aerospace engineer explains why it’s so hard to tell just how fast an airplane is really moving.
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Unlike our toilets at home, plane toilets have to ‘suck’ the waste with a vacuum system. But don’t worry, it doesn’t get released into the air.
Soot from aeroplane exhausts can linger in the atmosphere, seeding ice clouds which trap heat.
Globally, emissions from air travel account for only about 3% of the warming human activities are causing, but aviation affects our climate in a number of ways.
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Professor of atmospheric science, Aviation and Climate Research Group Leader, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Physics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor/Head of Aviation, CQUniversity Australia
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Director of the NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium, Iowa State University
