The richest amongst us are loving the latest space tourism boom, and industry leaders like Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin love to tout statistics about how little carbon dioxide their flights release into the atmosphere. Those quick jaunts into space aren’t exactly climate-neutral, though.
Scientists have suspected that space flights could be contributing to climate change even when they don’t utilize traditional CO2-spouting jet fuels. Other particles produced by rockets could be irreversible damage to the ozone layer, according to a new study by University College London, the University of Cambridge, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
