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Environmental impact of aviation, an Uncommon card
Aircraft engines produce gases, noise, and particulates from fossil fuel combustion, raising environmental concerns over both global impacts and their effects on local air quality.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 88
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 183
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 24,000
Power 183 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Environmental impact of aviation quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Environmental impact of aviation card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In 2018, global commercial ______ generated 2.4% of all CO2 emissions.
Answer
operations. In 2018, global commercial operations generated 2.4% of all CO2 emissions. From the Environmental impact of aviation article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Actinide. Actinide 88,000 · Conscience 55,000 · Environmental impact of aviation 24,000 · Technical geography 9,500 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Jet airliners contribute to climate change via their exhaust, which contains carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulates, and which can lead to the formation of contrails under certain atmospheric conditions.
- Excluding the effect of contrail-induced cirrus clouds, the radiative forcing of jet exhaust is estimated at 1.3–1.4 times that of CO2 alone.
- In 2018, global commercial operations generated 2.4% of all CO2 emissions.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Environmental impact of aviation article was read about 24,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 88 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Environmental impact of aviation
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Environmental impact of aviation (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Marc Lacoste, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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