[Gasification] Aviation's role in global warming...9/11 aftermath proves theories on H20 in contrails in dramatic fashion.

[Greg and April]

Ah Frank,


Just in case you haven't noticed, CO2 doesn't make contrails - it's the 
water vapor in the jet exhaust that makes the contrails, and everyone knows 
that water vapor is a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2.    Contrails are 
nothing more than the water vapor from the exhaust that is condensing to for 
a type of cloud.


What's going on is that everyday, all day long, jet's go back and forth 
laying down a blanket of water vapor that may not be letting as much heat 
out at night.

In this case, it not CO2, but water vapor, that is the active principle.

Greg H.


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aftermath proves theories on H20 in contrails in dramatic fashion.


> "Station Crew Notes Absence of American Air Traffic in Wake of Terrorist
> Attacks
> By Todd Halvorson
> Cape Canaveral Bureau Chief
> posted: 01:26 pm ET
> 14 September 2001
> CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The International Space Stations crew spied yet more
> evidence Friday of the aftermath of this weeks terrorists attacks on
> America: the lack of air traffic over the continental United States.
>
> Three days after suicide airplane hijackers toppled the World Trade Center
> in New York and slammed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., the station
> crew noted an obvious absence of airborne jetliners from their perch 240
> miles (384 kilometers) above Earth.
>
> "Ill tell you one thing that's really strange: Normally when we go over
> the
> U.S., the sky is like a spider web of contrails," U.S. astronaut and
> outpost
> commander Frank Culbertson told flight controllers at NASAs Mission
> Control
> Center in Houston.
>
> "And now the sky is just about completely empty. There are no contrails in
> the sky," he added. "Its very, very weird."
>
> "I hadn't thought of that perspective," fellow astronaut Cady Coleman
> replied"
>
> ....neither did IPCC; but a subsequent research study revealed a 1 degree
> C.
> change in temperature as, once again; normal cooling of the land masses
> beneath these corridors took place--- and as every school child knows;
> that
> equals the rise in global warming measured over the past fifty years.
>
> ...I rest my case on the relatively insignificant role CO2 plays in
> G.Warming.!
>
> Frank J. Heller, MPA
> KATAHDIN ENERGY WORKS
> 12 Belmont St.
> Brunswick, ME 04011-3004
> 207.729.6090
> http://mysite.verizon.net/fjheller/
>