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How do contrails impact the overall envirionment

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It's significant. The warming effect of contrails is more than half the total climate impact of aircraft. If you take the contrails that are in the atmosphere today, the warming effect of them is more than all the CO2 that has been emitted by aircraft since the dawn of flight.
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