The Reality of Climate Change

This approach has been endorsed by many learned and informed commentators, among whom is former US Vice President A1 Gore, who in his movie An Inconvenient Truth highlighted the fact that the Earth s atmosphere is thin enough that we can change its composition with the emissions we produce through industrial activity and transportation. Gore, who has dedicated his career both as a 

Branson s initiative, which is both laudable and timely, follows a secular trend where, since the time of the introductirMi of jet aircraft, civil aviation authorities have made inroads into the realm of fuel consumption and made sustained efforts to address the issue of environmental impacts caused by aircraft operations. This is primarily because of the inevitable corollary to the exclusive use of petroleum as industrial fuel. This in turn resulted in the depletion of global oil reserves, where, as far back as 1949 oil was recognized as a finite non renewable resource. Both factors - pollution caused by engine emissions as well as the limits of global oil resources -prompted wide ranging studies on the optimal use of fuel in the aviation industiy and alternative fuel sources. 

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