On: AI to help planes avoid climate-warming 'sky graffiti'

[brookst]

Ok, say we somehow cut air travel by 50% overnight. Seems unlikely, but we did it.

Would you advocate to not pursue this approach to mitigating the remaining 50%?

[blondie9x → brookst]

Check out other comment. It could actually end up causing more warming in the long term depending on the net change in fuel use or extra maintenance on plane etc.

[teiferer → blondie9x]

The required changes are typically minimal. A little bit of altitude up or down, a minimal detour. Also mentioned in other comments (and in the article).

[dabinat → blondie9x]

Isn’t that the purpose of running a study? To establish that a theory works and could be beneficial at scale?