Environment

Storms caused by global warming increase global warming by forcing planes to fly longer. Apparently winds always blow against planes, never with them. The effect is supposedly due to a residual effect where the speedup of flights with the wind is slightly less than the slowdown of flights into the wind. Thinking about it, higher winds would affect both northern and southern flights more than lower winds because planes would have to deflect their course more to counteract the wind either way.

The prediction of the sun going to sleep has advanced from 2030 to 2020.