INQUIRER.net: Fasten seatbelts for bumpier flights—climate study

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Fasten seatbelts for bumpier flights—climate study Apr 8th 2013, 22:50 PARIS—Flights will become bumpier as global warming destabilizes air currents at altitudes used by commercial airliners, climate scientists warned Monday.   Already, atmospheric turbulence injures hundreds of airline passengers each year, sometimes fatally, damaging aircraft and costing the industry an estimated $150 million (115 million euros), scientists said.   "Climate change is not just warming the Earth's surface, it is also changing the atmospheric winds ten kilometers (six miles) high, where planes fly," said study co-author Paul Williams of the University of Reading's National Center for Atmospheric Science in southeastern England.   "That ... Keep on reading: Fasten seatbelts for bumpier flights—climate study Media files: Boeing-787-.jpg (image/jpeg)

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