Stop cross-polar flights, reduce Arctic warming, save money: study

Source: Nunatsiaq News

Here’s a way to keep the Arctic cold: prevent aircraft from taking shortcuts over the Arctic or only allow cross-polar flights during the dark months of winter.

A recent study in the scientific journal Climatic Change on the effects of rerouting aircraft around the Arctic circle on Arctic and global climate looked at what would happen if cross-polar flights by international commercial aircraft were rerouted away from the Arctic.

Its research determined that this rerouting would cut fuel-use emissions within the Arctic by 83 per cent.

And the rerouting would delay the transport of heat-increasing pollutants from other regions to the high latitudes.

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