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“A September 2022 study predicts that clear-air turbulence will increase significantly around the globe by the period 2050-2080, in particular along the busiest flight routes, and the strongest type of turbulence will increase the most.” https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/21/world/singapore-airlines-...


Why didn't they reference the study by title and author names? Who conducted the study? How can we fact check it?

This is bad journalism.


It's in the first link where it connects to NCAR and Dr. Paul Williams;

https://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~williams/publications/2017GL0...


https://news.agu.org/press-release/flights-worldwide-face-in... A new study published online in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, has calculated that climate change will significantly increase the amount of severe turbulence worldwide by 2050–2080. Severe turbulence involves forces stronger than gravity, and is strong enough to throw people and luggage around an aircraft cabin.




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