10 thoughts on “Chicago: dawn with contrail

  1. But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
    Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward tower block!

    1. …causing climate change –
      doi:10.1038/nclimate1068
      Essentially the cirrus clouds created by the vapour trails are more damaging than the emissions from the jets.

  2. I went to lab way early today and was able to watch the light of a rising sun ignite Mt. Rainier.

  3. Reminds of the bad science ‘fact’ stated in Jo Nesbo’s novel ‘the Redeemer’ where the author (or the translator) stated that contrails form at the level of the tropopause (the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere), far higher than planes actually fly.

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