Climate change and airplane turbulence

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[JAlexanderG]

Pretty cool. I experienced what would be considered severe turbulence, according to this video, once before. It was exciting in all the wrong ways, to say the least. Fortunately it was more like the light and moderate turbulence she describes, although there was one instance during the flight where there must have been a more severe drop of altitude.

Definitely an experience I don't want to have again, though I'm glad that I know what it feels like now to experience it. Honestly, wasn't as bad as even some of the smaller roller coasters that I've been on, but it is a whole other sensation when it is completely unexpected and you're strapped inside of a metal tube at 10k feet.

[Leggir]

Flying from Winnipeg to Edmonton we extreme turbulence that the WJ pilot of 20 years said it was the largest he'd ever encountered. We dropped about 1000 feet in a few seconds. Everything was on the floor, many overhead bins came open, stewardesses fell. Fortunately I usually keep my belt on for short flights. Then we landed and had to wait in the plane for 3 hours for a lightning storm to pass.

[Mathesonguy]

If climate change is such a large problem, ban air travel. I wonder how Leo, Al, and David would like that, considering each of them has logged more air miles that most people's family trees.

[chrisd_man]

No, not because of global lunacy, turbulence related incidents are on the increase because of more aircraft in the air for longer trips, as well as passengers NOT keeping their seat belts on.

This "research" quoted is cherry picked opinion, not peer reviewed research, in other words someone using the word: Experts, ....for credibility, where there is absolutely no credibility.