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February 22, 2013

How Airplanes Heat the Planet

John Metcalfe, Atlantic


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When looking for evidence of humanity's hand in climate change, it's easy to spot the belchers of greenhouse gases sitting at eye level: snaking rivers of bumper-to-bumper cars, say, or vapor-shrouded smokestacks at power plants. Few people tend to look straight up, though, which if you had done it last Friday would've yielded a jittering mess of billowy streaks:

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