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Does air traffic affect our weather?

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The Impact of Aircraft Exhaust on Climate Change

There are ways that planes can make it rain or snow. We also learnt that airplanes can help us forecast the weather and that contrails affect both our local weather and long term climate change. Will this pandemic permanently reduce the amount we fly? I doubt it so we're going to need greener ways of flying in the future which is a whole other episode. If you have any questions that need answering please email it to crowdscience at bbc.co.uk Thanks for listening.

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