Climate change to take an increasing toll on air travel, United CEO warns

Amid a summer of extreme weather and hundreds of thousands of flight delays at the nation’s airports, the CEO of United Airlines said these travel issues could become the new normal due to climate change. NBC News’ Tom Costello reports.

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[patricialavallee]

Will is effect the Uber wealthies private jets?

[derikstinson]

Wish America had an amazing super speed train system

[JeffreySmith]

Ahhh yea. The reason you don't have high speed trains in America is because of the car companies and politicians. The car companies give politicians to NOT build high speed trains. Next!😢

[Mr_CAM]

Dont worry ceo you'll get a bail out. Your golden parachute is locked in.

[benouzgane]

Frequent flight delays is gonna make things very difficult.

[tyke]

I'm sure it's not going to impact the military use of jets rockets and continuing running of their trucks. Talk about air quality look at the military

[chiyoung]

what does this phrase "violent storms parked over Newark and Denver" mean?

[ronjohnson]

Does it affect John Kerry's prive jet, or is that just for the Peons that fly?

[abfutrell]

Perhaps it's time to switch your train of thought. :)

[drivingwithtom]

I guess nobody should fly, including old Joe. Dudes got a bigger carbon footprint from his Air Force one joyrides than most people living in upstate New York. 🎉

[lukeslc-xdds]

"God created the earth in all its magnificent glory, not as an end in itself, but for us, His children. Indeed, we are His children, His offspring, and He is the Father of our spirits." We should worship the Creator and not the creation.

[ljacobs]

I wouldn't use this guy as a resource. 😊

[austinshannon]

Drew brees is the best nfl player in history.

[donarrivas]

It's a reason to have granola bars instead of full meals to avoid indigestion or spillings in those long distant flights, even in the first class section, they eats the granolas also. To get a decent meal, passengers would have to pay extra to join the airline VIP clubs to smug the continental breakfast on board for latter use.

[JohnPeter-yfjf]

Kind of a bad headline - how about - Human Climate Change is making Air Travel more turbulent.

[lynnturman]

What's the problem? Just turn on Fox News & it will go away. Not complicated.

[stevejr]

Wow! Funny how things take care of themselves.

[thecuatrogallery]

I think it's the other way around

[silviashefa]

As the climate heads into greater extremes globally, how can we best deal with future climate crises?
The short answer is that we cannot deal with them unless we take care of nature's inner balance.
We live in a tightly-closed and interdependent system in which everything boomerangs back to us. While living in such a system, we need to reconsider what we want and think, and how we treat each other, because our human connections are the primary influence on how nature responds to us.
It is common to think that climate is dependent on factors outside of us—whether it be balances between heat and cold in the environment, or the effects of various kinds of pollution we emit—because we lack a complete picture of how our attitudes to each other bring about the strongest responses from nature toward us.
No creature distorts nature the way that we people do. And it is not simply a matter of switching to renewable energy sources, electric cars and the like; it is a matter of how we relate to each other.
If we truly wish to witness more balance throughout nature and not have to deal with all kinds of cold waves and other natural disasters, then similarly to how we have electricity, water and gas meters in our homes, we should also have meters that count how much evil we emit into the world from our negative attitudes to each other. What I mean is that if we could feel the extent to which we emit negative forces into the world, which negatively ricochet back to us, then we would wish to change this negative driver within us. We would want to switch it to a drive that makes our human connections positive, and which harmonizes us with nature.
In simple terms, when we get up in the morning, we should first and foremost consider what we need to do in order for all people to have it good. Developing such an attitude is not so simple, yet we will need to seriously work on it as we head into the future. A life of increasing blows from nature or a life of peace and harmony depends on the extent to which we impact a shift in our attitudes to each other—from negative to positive.

[Michaelcj-md]

I'll take the bullet train in Europe