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Senator Markey says aviation equipment investments needed to fly through climate change

Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey tells FAA Acting Administrator Billy Nolen that the Senate Commerce Committee heard in testimony the week before that Southwest Airlines suffered its own operational meltdown due to inadequate amounts of winter equipment which was exacerbated by its own limited technological system, Southwest indicating not having enough de icing equipment in Chicago or in Denver, which is like saying you don't have enough baseballs to open the season at Fenway Park, that airlines didn't anticipate what was unfolding, as a result of global warming, Burlington, Vermont, was seven degrees warmer in the winter than it was just 50 years earlier in what Markey called Global Weirding so to adjust adapt the system to the craziness of the weather, and the aviation system has to make the investment in order to deal with this dramatically changing weather environment due to global warming.
Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey tells FAA Acting Administrator Billy Nolen that the Senate Commerce Committee heard in testimony the week before that Southwest Airlines suffered its own operational meltdown due to inadequate amounts of winter equipment which was exacerbated by its own limited technological system, Southwest indicating not having enough de icing equipment in Chicago or in Denver, which is like saying you don't have enough baseballs to open the season at Fenway Park, that airlines didn't anticipate what was unfolding, as a result of global warming, Burlington, Vermont, was seven degrees warmer in the winter than it was just 50 years earlier in what Markey called Global Weirding so to adjust adapt the system to the craziness of the weather, and the aviation system has to make the investment in order to deal with this dramatically changing weather environment due to global warming.
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February 15, 2023
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