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Planes, Trains And Climate Change
11.11.2023 - 12:45 / forbes.com / Scott Kirby / Paul Williams
Air travel generates a lot of carbon pollution, contributing to a climate crisis whose worsening weather also makes air travel more turbulent and unpleasant. As those conditions intensify in the years ahead, research suggests high-speed trains — which don’t exist in the U.S. — would be a resilient alternative.
So far this year, there have been over 1 million flight arrival delays, accounting for about 23% of all flights, the highest rate in a decade, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Scientific consensus suggests a contributor to the spike in disruptions is ever-worsening weather associated with the climate crisis.
According to Federal Aviation Administration data, about 75% of U.S. flight delays are due to weather, and was an especially big headache this summer amid intense thunderstorms and heat, Zhenhua Chen, a professor of urban planning at the Ohio State University, told Forbes. He’s done extensive research on weather’s effects on planes and trains and finds that places with bullet trains connecting major cities — like China, Europe and Japan — ensure travelers have options to complete short and medium-distance trips when bad weather halts flights. He believes the lack of that alternative in the U.S. has economic implications.
“There’s an opportunity cost for the U.S. of not building a high-speed rail system,” said Chen, who’s extensively researched ways in which bad weather affects plane and rail travel, particularly in China. “There’s also productivity loss for businesses. This is the most important thing a lot of policymakers have ignored.”
Paul Williams, an atmospheric scientist at Britain’s University of Redding, studies shifts in the jet stream that are increasing air turbulence. Research published in June 2023 that he co-authored found that surges in “clear-air turbulence” were particularly noticeable over the U.S. and North Atlantic, busy flight regions. That report also found that such incidents jumped 55% between 1979 and 2020.
Even some airline officials acknowledge the impact climate change is having on the business.
"I think irregular operations events are going to be more likely to occur as the climate warms," United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said at a Politico event in July. "More heat in the atmosphere, thermodynamics 101 — we're going to have more thunderstorms."
Six decades after Japan debuted its shinkansen system, high-speed trains with speeds of 300 kilometers per hour (186 mph) or more crisscross Europe, South Korea, Taiwan and especially China, with its sprawling 26,000-mile network. And soon Morocco will join Saudi Arabia and Indonesia’s Java island in debuting its own system. Noticeably absent: the U.S., which has no true high-speed trains at all. That
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