Aviation and climate change

Aviation and climate change /

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), aviation currently accounts for about 2 percent of human-generated global carbon dioxide emissions, the most significant greenhouse gas and about 3 percent of the potential warming effect of global emissions that can affect the earth...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Blumenthal, George T. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2010
Series:Environmental science, engineering and technology series.
Subjects:
Aircraft exhaust emissions > Environmental aspects > United States.
Aeronautics, Commercial > Environmental aspects > United States.
Greenhouse gases > Environmental aspects > United States.
Climatic changes > United States.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Aviation and climate change: aircraft emissions expected to grow, but technological and operational improvements and government policies can help control emissions / United States Government Accountability Office
  • Aviation & emissions: a primer / Federal Aviation Administration
  • Hearing on aviation and the environment: emissions / Richard L. Altman
  • Hearing on aviation and the environment: emmissions / James K Coyne
  • Statement of Daniel K Elwell on aviation emissions / Federal Aviation Administration
  • Written testimony of Dr. David W. Fahey on aviation and the environment: emissions / United States. Department of Commerce
  • Aviation and the environment: emissions and the commercial airlines' climate change commitment / James C. May
  • Aviation and the environment: NextGen and research and development are keys to reducing emissions and their impact on health and climate / Gerald L. Dillingham
  • Aviation and climate change / James E. McCarthy

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