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  • 25-03-2020 12:33am
    #1
    XLR 8
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭


    Just noticed on Flight Radar no aircraft over the island of Ireland, Scotland & Wales. Rare enough I'd imagine.


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  • #2
    Noxegon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Noxegon


    Get used to it...

    I develop Superior Solitaire when I'm not procrastinating on boards.ie.



  • #3
    iamtony
    Registered Users Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭iamtony


    XLR 8 wrote: »
    Just noticed on Flight Radar no aircraft over the island of Ireland, Scotland & Wales. Rare enough I'd imagine.
    And the weather is beautiful and very pretty sunsets in the evenings I wonder are these things connected.


  • #4
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,797 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    iamtony wrote:
    And the weather is beautiful and very pretty sunsets in the evenings I wonder are these things connected.


    Far less chemtrails around, of course these are connected


  • #5
    Board Walker
    Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭Board Walker


    There is frequently no aircraft over Ireland at that hour!


  • #6
    iamtony
    Registered Users Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭iamtony


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Far less chemtrails around, of course these are connected

    I'd love official data on it. This is a once in a life time experiment to see the impact of aviation on the world. I'm sure someone is monitoring it.
    Maybe this is the kick in the teeth us humans needed to make nessisary changes, time will tell.


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  • #7
    Bogwoppit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭Bogwoppit


    3 trails over my house this morning.


  • #8
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,797 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    iamtony wrote: »
    I'd love official data on it. This is a once in a life time experiment to see the impact of aviation on the world. I'm sure someone is monitoring it.
    Maybe this is the kick in the teeth us humans needed to make nessisary changes, time will tell.

    it would be a very interesting study, but us humans have a tendency to be slow to change, i expect normal aviation activity to return some time after this passes


  • #9
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,600 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    iamtony wrote: »
    And the weather is beautiful and very pretty sunsets in the evenings I wonder are these things connected.

    Those actually require there to be particles in the air to reflect/refract/diffuse the light so it's unlikely


  • #10
    Comhrá
    Registered Users Posts: 4,753 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    If I recall correctly, after 9/11 when transatlantic air travel was paused for just a few days, some studies suggested the atmosphere was somewhat cleaner. I'll see if I can dig up some links.


    https://globalnews.ca/news/2934513/empty-skies-after-911-set-the-stage-for-an-unlikely-climate-change-experiment/


    https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/climatechange/2009/05/911_contrails_study_challenged.html


  • #11
    Cookiemunster
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cookiemunster


    iamtony wrote: »
    I'd love official data on it. This is a once in a life time experiment to see the impact of aviation on the world. I'm sure someone is monitoring it.
    Maybe this is the kick in the teeth us humans needed to make nessisary changes, time will tell.
    Comhra wrote: »
    If I recall correctly, after 9/11 when transatlantic air travel was paused for just a few days, some studies suggested the atmosphere was somewhat cleaner. I'll see if I can dig up some links.


    https://globalnews.ca/news/2934513/empty-skies-after-911-set-the-stage-for-an-unlikely-climate-change-experiment/


    https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/climatechange/2009/05/911_contrails_study_challenged.html


    Remember that car usage is also down to near zero around Europe as most of the continent is on lockdown. We're also using less electricity so those emissions are down too.

    Unlike in 2001, when car or energy usage didn't reduce, it won't be possible to separate the out the reduction of emissions from the aviation industry from other reductions.


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  • #12
    Nijmegen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭Nijmegen


    Cars, factories, planes, the whole lot will have a very marked impact on emissions. Not sure what that'll tell us that we didn't already know, mind you.


  • #13
    Tenger
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 9,720 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    Aviation accounts for approx 3% of emissions, so I expect a drop of under 3% from airline grounding.
    Factories and vehicles account for a larger percentage.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Tenger wrote: »
    Aviation accounts for approx 3% of emissions, so I expect a drop of under 3% from airline grounding.
    Factories and vehicles account for a larger percentage.

    It always surprises me that people don’t know that above fact.

    Aviation is always thrown out there as the big evil for both emissions and noise. When in fact it, as an individual element, is a small contributor to emissions. The main reason people think it is the big evil one is because it is easily targeted and gets the most publicity when it is targeted.

    Agriculture is a huge contributor, but how do you boycott that industry and get the same impact by camping out on a runway.


  • #15
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Industry kept going after Sept 11 and during the Icelandic volcano shutdown there will be atmosphere data for those periods to compare with this when industry and other transport is also closed in significant part.


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