The friendly skies are becoming the bumpy skies. As carbon dioxide emissions increase, so too will the prevalence and power of the turbulence that strikes fear in the hearts of white-knuckled airline passengers, a new computer simulation suggests.
BUMPY FUTURE Air turbulence (red patch) over the North Atlantic may become stronger and more frequent in a world with twice as much atmospheric carbon dioxide (right) compared with preindustrial times (left).
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