AI to help planes avoid climate-warming 'sky graffiti'
A new UK trial hopes to reduce the condensation trails from planes, which can trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere.
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""We think that contrail warming is responsible for something like a third of all aviation climate warming.""
— Dr Paul Hodgson , Academic
""This is a world-first, and it's British ingenuity leading the way.""
— Keir Mather , Politician
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A new UK trial hopes to reduce the condensation trails from planes, which can trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere.
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