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The record cancelation of flights out of Phoenix, Arizona in the summer of 2017 due to unusually high air temperature is the reason I picked my doctoral research topic on the impacts of climate change on aviation. Now, Phoenix set another unfortunate record: 100 straight days of 100°F (~38°C) or greater heat, beating the previous streak by 3.5 weeks. The death toll will likely be in the hundreds this year (it was 645 last year for the whole Maricopa county). But of course, this does not include the death of local fauna and flora, which is silent until we find our food chains disrupted. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/09/03/phoenix-100-degree-temperatures-record/
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do you have an opinion on carbon capture/direct air capture? how real is it?
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It's real, but impact is nothing compared to preventing emissions in the first place. Even natural carbon capture suffers from heat. We are asked to plant trees, but heat makes them absorb less carbon... So the more we emit the less our carbon capture is working. If it require to build industrial plants to absorb emission from industrial plants... Not sure we can get out of it easily... The main way is to emit less, meaning producing less, meaning less consumption of energy, goods, travels, meat, ... Some people already do that, some people are willing to do it, but most people don't even consider it and some even oppose hard on changing their way of living.
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