Re:Global tourism is booming. These people would rather it w...
by notachatbot1234 on Friday May 31, 2024 @10:30AM
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If we have 80% more air travel, that would accelerate global warming hugely.
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Re:Global tourism is booming. These people would rather it w...
by ben_w on Friday May 31, 2024 @10:38AM
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Not "hugely", not by itself.
Air travel is responsible for 4% of warming to date[0], so an 80% growth would make aviation… responsible for 7.2% of current warming, or warming going up 3.2% compared to reality — sure, that's still bad, but it's not huge.
That said, if "80% of people aren't using aircraft" were true (I don't think it is), going from that to everyone wouldn't be "80% more air travel", it would be 400% more air travel, boosting global warming by 16%. Which is even worse, but again, not what I'd call "accelerate global warming hugely".
[0] more than you might expect from the 2.5% of global CO₂ emissions: https://ourworldindata.org/global-aviation-emissions