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So, we need to restrict you peasants from taking fossil fueled flights. Not the Elites, of course

Climate change will ‘lead to noisier take offs’

Scientists have discovered that warmer air from climate change will create more noise pollution from departing airplanes around European airports.

Researcher’s from the University of Reading have been studying how rising air temperatures change the way aircrafts take off.

On average, departing aircraft climb angles will decrease by 1-3%, but individual hot days could reduce climb angles by up to 7.5%.

Dr Jonny Williams, lead author at the University of Reading, said: “Over the next three decades, thousands of extra people in London could be blighted by noise pollution caused by climate change.”

So, this is all about climb angles. Commercial jets typically take off at 5-15 degrees of pitch, and rarely exceed 20 degrees when they are higher up. So, what, the angles will be 5.89-14.79 degrees? It’s like saying people can really notice the difference between 70F and 71.7F. Planes will still take off the same, typically you see about 10 degree for a typical airport. High altitude airports tend to have lower up angles.

They focused on the 50-decibel level, which marks a boundary where aircraft noise becomes more noticeable to residents.

The team studied how climb angles of the Airbus A320 commonly used for short European flights affect this threshold as the climate changes.

In central London, around 60,000 people currently live within the 50dB noise footprint of a typical A320 aircraft.

Changes in climate and population density could mean around 2,500 additional people are brought into this boundary.

Whoop de do. Except the takeoff angle won’t really change. Heathrow is supposedly limited to 5 degrees, which is weird, because they try to limit noise, hence their approach angle for some bigger jets is 3.2 instead of the typical 3.0, a slightly higher angle to reduce noise time. Not quite a slam dunk.

Dr Williams explained that the problem gets worse with different types of sound. Low frequency noise which travels further will “increase the most” whilst deeper sounds “annoy human ears and can cause stress and sleep problems”.

“Without action on greenhouse gas emissions, rising temperatures will make managing the problem of airport noise more difficult, even as engine technology advances,” he said.

Maybe do not live near an airport? Remember, these same people have no problem forcing people out in the countryside to deal with the noise and constant blocking of sun as blades revolve.

Let’s start with the action by banning politicians and climate cult scientists from taking fossil fueled flights.

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I mean, I’m seriously impressed, the doomsday cult has really been working on coming up with new stuff instead of recycling the same old stuff

Where ‘day-zero droughts’ could happen as soon as this decade

Many parts of the world are predicted to endure “day-zero droughts,” periods of extreme and unprecedented water scarcity, which could happen as soon as this decade in certain hotspots including parts of North America, the Mediterranean and southern Africa, according to a new study.

It’s well known that climate change, driven by burning fossil fuels, is throwing the global water cycle off balance and causing scarcity. What’s much less clear is when and where extreme water shortages will hit. The new research helps provide answers and some of them are surprising, said Christian Franzke, a climate scientist at Pusan National University in South Korea and an author of the study published Tuesday in Nature Communications.

The scientists used a large number of climate models to assess the timing and likelihood of day-zero droughts. These are “unprecedented water scarcity events, events which haven’t occurred so far,” Franzke said. It’s when “you turn on your water tap and no water comes out,” he told CNN.

Day-zero droughts arise from the confluence of various factors, including a prolonged dearth of rain, low river levels and shrunken reservoirs, as well as rocketing water demand to supply people, farms and industries.

Computer models, LOL. They tell the doomsday scientists whatever they want. Anyhow, what happens if this doesn’t happen? Who loses their job, pension, and reputation?

More than a third of these regions, including the western United States, could face this situation as early as the 2020s or 2030s. The finding that day-zero droughts could happen so soon, at current levels of global warming, was “something that surprised us,” Franzke said, even though a few cities have already come perilously close.

Oh, right, no one will remember this particular bit of scaremongering, it’s meant for now, to freak people out and get politicians to pass laws. But, I think people are mostly done being scared. I’ve always watched a ton of horror movies since I was young and read horror books. There’s little that scares me anymore.

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