"What the science is telling us is that climate change is making the atmosphere more turbulent. However, whether flights are becoming bumpier and more dangerous is another matter, because there are other factors at play," Williams said."Turbulence forecasts that pilots use to plan smooth flight routes are improving all the time, modern aircraft are better at handling turbulence, and passenger compliance with seatbelt advice may be improving.
The number of flights reporting turbulence injuries is very small when set against the total of commercial flights worldwide, which reached nearly 39 million in 2019, before the COVID pandemic hit, according to Statista. "The improvements in our understanding of turbulence and techniques to predict turbulence are rapid. Pilots have ever increasing information at their disposal to detect and avoid turbulence," Lane said."With the immense improvements in weather prediction in recent years, and those that will occur in the near future, I anticipate that our ability to avoid and predict turbulence will improve quicker than any increase in turbulence in the atmosphere due to climate change.
Let me guess. Cows farting again.