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📢This Saturday, XR Oxford and XR Waverley held a protest against planet-wrecking private jets at Oxford Airport.

Oxford Airport in numbers:
✈️An average of 38 private flights PER DAY
🛩️Over 30 private jets for charter
🛫28% of flights completely EMPTY
☠️Private planes are up to 14 times more polluting per passenger than commercial planes and 50 times more polluting than trains.

🎥 clip credits: Suzanne Williams

"...completely breaks all existing climate models, and is more than double the value that would be expected based on current levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Reporting the alarming rise, the authors of a new study say that the “trend has taken us by surprise,” and that “the continued rise in the energy imbalance since 2020 leaves us with little doubt that the real world signal has left the envelope of model internal variability.”"

iflscience.com/earths-energy-i

Earth’s Energy Imbalance Is More Than Double What It Should Be – And We Don’t Know Why
IFLScience · Greenhouse Gases Are Trapping Twice As Much Heat As They Should, Leading To A Record-Breaking Energy ImbalanceBy Benjamin Taub