Ash and more hot air news...

[typezerora]

Apologies for repeating the subject about the Volcano Ash but I wanted to talk about something that has been overlooked.

Has anyone noticed how clear the skies were since we had a flight ban? I am pretty sure the vast majority of the daily pollution had been cut in half thanks to the lack of planes out there.

So we have a goverment telling us that cars are bad for the environment blah blah blah yet we have had an unexpected demonstration of what is the worst pollutant i.e. a plane.

Food for thought

[Jonboy_t]

typezerora said:

Apologies for repeating the subject about the Volcano Ash but I wanted to talk about something that has been overlooked.

Has anyone noticed how clear the skies were since we had a flight ban? I am pretty sure the vast majority of the daily pollution had been cut in half thanks to the lack of planes out there.

So we have a goverment telling us that cars are bad for the environment blah blah blah yet we have had an unexpected demonstration of what is the worst pollutant i.e. a plane.

Food for thought

The government have been going on about planes for almost as long as cars, but considering there is a much smaller volume of planes than cars about, it may explain the lack of concentration on them - plus the government can fk over drivers, pilots are a little more difficult.

Also, good weather may have something to do with the season? Just a thought!

[fatboy b]

Skies were very hazy round us last weekend.

[soad]

typezerora said:

Has anyone noticed how clear the skies were since we had a flight ban?

Indeed, and no noise either

[Mr Gear]

soad said:

typezerora said:

Has anyone noticed how clear the skies were since we had a flight ban?

Indeed, and no noise either

Living under the heathrow flight path, the planes were conspicuous by their absence this weekend. Had a lovely nap in the garden... for the first time ever I think! Plus, I could hear an owl hooting in the distance and lots of woodpeckers. I didn't realise there was so much nature to be heard in London.

[troc]

It's the high cloud that's missing and making the skies look so clear. Aeroplanes are one of the major causes of high-altitude cirrus clouds (see http://www.co2offsetresearch.org/aviation/Contrail... for example). The same was noticed in the US after 9/11 IIRC.

Low-level "haziness" is caused by other stuff, like generic pollution, pollen, cars ( ), the sea etc.

[anonymous-user]

This has been covered already http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...