Flight rerouting reportedly cut contrail formation by 62% in trials with American Airlines

A post announcing an Information Bottleneck episode with Google Fellow John Platt says flight rerouting cut contrail formation by 62% in trials with American Airlines, with almost no extra fuel. The post estimates contrails account for roughly 1% of human-caused warming. The episode also covers FireSat, a satellite constellation built to catch wildfires while they are still small, and Platt’s views on where AI helps scientists.