I spent a few minutes on a humorous site from the Netherlands last night. It is in Dutch of course but easily translated. They had numerous photos of TV meteorologists announcing the clear blue skies or saying 'not a cloud in the sky today', but the skies were completely scared with man-made Aviaticus Clouds in the background displays. Funny of course but watch for a change soon in the forecasting media.
The TV meteorologists soon will be schooled in how to describe these man-made clouds. Both Cirrus Aviaticus clouds and Cirrostratus Aviaticus clouds, those contrails that spread to form the milky sheets, will become even more prevalent with the continued increase in air travel that is taking place. Due to high airline profits, all jet manufacturers appear to be swamped with new orders of aircraft. (Brazil's Embraer included and the explanation for their low stock price may be the present social and political conditions) The term 'Aviation Smog" is used on the Dutch site. Due to the cold air, high pressure areas and moisture saturation that far north, they really have more than their share of these man-made cirrus clouds, historically referred to as contrails and more recently as chemtrails by conspiracy folks.
Screen shot from flightradar24 display in early morning:
Soon we will see contrail descriptions and photos as part of the weather shows as well as forecasts of the clouds. (They are not hard to predict for even a layman). One scientific study I found attempted to determine if these aviaticus clouds would actually cool the atmosphere but there is the reverse theory also, that the aviaticus clouds reflect the heat back to earth, thus warming would occur. The study concluded that there was no effect. Now future studies will be politicized; the airlines industry I would guess will want to show studies that indicate there is no effect or a cooling effect, environmentalist another view, skeptic & conspiracy folks another, FAA out of self-preservation I would guess will want to be neutral, carbon credit advocates another view. We'll have to sort out the truth ourselves.
Thank you for referring to my websites www.contrails.nl and www.meteologica.nl. I would never have guessed that somebody would ever call them 'funny'.
ReplyDeleteI am currently updating the pictures of contrails (cirrus aviaticus, aviation-smog or 'veil clouds' as weatherman and -women rather call them).
Not only meteorologists but also politicians and journalists rather ignore, deny or euphemize these man-made clouds, ignoring the inescapable influence on weather, climate and the quantity and qualify of the sun's radiation that reaches the surface of Earth.
Kind regards,
Robert van Waning, The Netherlands.