Guidance

Aircraft contrails

Explains what contrails are and provides information about the health and environmental effects.

From:
Department for Transport
Published
2 October 2012
Last updated
2 August 2022 — See all updates

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Aircraft contrails

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Factual paper on aircraft contrails explaining:

  • what they are and how they are caused
  • the health effects
  • the environmental effects

Updates to this page

Published 2 October 2012
Last updated 2 August 2022 + show all updates

  1. Amendment of geo-engineering and weather modification information.

  2. Updated with the latest information on contrails.

  3. Links updated.

  4. Updated to remove references to chemtrails and barium measurements.

  5. First published.

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