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Impact Of Global Warming On The World And Aviation

Impact of Global Warming on the World & Aviation


" We may have unwittingly begun a massive experiment with the system of the planet itself," Margaret Thatcher, 1988.   With the rising temperatures and ocean levels, global warming has been mentioned in the media since the late eighties. However, recently global warming has been receiving more attention with the change in weather patterns across the western United States. "In fact, global surface air temperature has increased by between 0.3 to 0.6 degrees Celsius since the late nineteenth century."   The Kyoto Protocol, formed to address these environmental issues, was primarily meant to: "reduce 5.2% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as measured at 1990 levels for the period of 2008 to 2012."   To date, there exists not a larger nor precarious situation as global warming.
Due to the environmental impact that major cities cause, with unending stress on the natural environment, car pollution, refineries and human destruction have all caused the ozone layer great amounts of damage and loss. One only has to consider the ozone holes over Antarctica and Australia. Here the UV-B rays are harmful to the point of causing skin cancer from one outing because the ozone "protective," layer no longer exists. In addition to the added stress the human population has caused the shrinking ozone, the weather patterns have changed in response to stress, and polar icecaps are melting in the artic waters of the North Pole. As an aviation pilot, the changes in weather and weather patterns are extremely alarming for three reasons: 1) there is no stability in being able to control weather conditions which decide flight destination or route, 2) there exists a greater danger in flying planes when the weather changes suddenly, and 3) the risk of pilots and their crew is indirectly dependent on a non-controllable source, the weather.
While many environmentalists have provided options in which to control the amount of further...