AI to help planes avoid climate-warming 'sky graffiti'
Summary
BBC reports on Operation Blue Skies, a £5m UK trial using AI to predict contrail formation and direct planes to alter altitude to avoid warming contrails. The project involves Google, the UK government, the Met Office, NATS, and researchers from Cambridge and Imperial College, with testing in the Shanwick North Atlantic airspace; early modelling suggests potential net climate benefits despite a small increase in fuel burn, and results will be published academically.