Nextcloud, is this an early 1th of April joke?

Or are you really encouraging air travel ✈️ for this? 🤔 .

#nothappy #climatechange #airtravel #notcoming

"We fly lots, and we say that we shouldn't,” says Jonas De Vos, a transport geographer at University College London (UCL) and the first author of the latest study. “We are hypocrites.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02965-7

The standard wisdom is that academic careers, especially early, are harmed when academics don't jet around the world for in-person meetings. This article suggests that the importance of this travel is overstated, while the carbon cost is clear.

#ClimateChange #AirTravel #AcademicChatter

Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate — but they carry on

A survey at one of the biggest UK research universities finds that staff often end up flying to meetings despite a preference to avoid air travel.

^{Soliman, Alix}

Tracking private jets just got much harder

https://www.popsci.com/technology/tracking-private-jets/

#flying #airTravel

Tracking private jets just got much harder | Popular Science

It's a major privacy win for the nation's wealthiest air travelers.

^{Andrew Paul (Popular Science)}