By Paul Homewood
h/t idau
As the saying goes, data trumps theory.
While the media has been having a field day linking air turbulence to global warming, the actual data shows the opposite.
Three years ago the US National Transportation Safety Board published a detailed report into turbulence related accidents:
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The report was clear – there has been no increase in the frequency of such accidents since 1989:
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The trend is even clearer when shown as a ratio of flight hours:
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Turbulence accidents are counted when there is either aircraft damage or serious injury, so the data can be regarded as robust, which would not be the case if the definitions were more subjective.
Aviation expert, Juan Browne, has his full analysis of the Singapore Airlines incident here:
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This whole media circus is part of a much wider problem.
Far too often the media’s bases its apocalyptic climate stories on computer models instead of real world, which usually tells a different story.
And there are plenty of grant addicted, grifting scientists out there to provide them with the ammunition.