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by gourou 2541 days ago
A possible alternative would be to tax carbon emissions
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to the extent this is possible, this is probably the best solution, since emissions are not directly proportional to number of passengers or even fuel use.
Note also that it has only recently been established that water vapor emitted at cruising altitude has an unexpectedly long residence time and thus an unexpectedly high GWP, perhaps as much as the CO_2 emitted, thus doubling the impact over that same amount of fuel burnt at ground level.