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Thursday, 03 December 2009
The European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E), a non-government group specialising in transport policy, has queried the airline industry’s claim that it is only responsible for around two per cent of carbon dioxide emissions, saying this excludes the contribution to global warming from nitrogen oxides, condensation trails created in the wake of aircraft and the formation of cirrus clouds, which have been calculated to have two to five times the global warming impact of carbon dioxide alone.
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