How do you like your skies ... Natural or man-made?

We believe that no one, no government agency or private corporation, has the right to pollute our air or drinking water supplies, modify our weather, or impact the living environment around us – including the upper atmosphere.. Read more

2008 - Suppressed Aviation Report Forecasts 'Massive Environmental Damage'
Climate change emissions by the airline industry, airport noise, and local air pollution are all trending sharply upwards, according to a suppressed report based on information contained in U.S., European and UK government databases maintained by regulatory agencies. Read more

The BONNEFIRE Coalition aims to take real action against persistent jet contrails!

Enough is enough — it's time to take meaningful, positive and well planned action to take back our skies and protect our planet through concerted effort and in a fashion that will have our legitimate concerns met.

Find out more about what you can do to participate. Together we can make a real difference. Let's get it done!

From the Federal Register March 11, 2009:

This application from the Navy "…requests authorization to take individuals of 32 species of marine mammals during upcoming Navy Warfare testing and training to be conducted in the NWTR areas (off the Pacific coasts of Washington, Oregon, and northern California) over the course of 5 years…"

The Navy Warfare Testing Program will "…utilize mid - and high frequency active sonar sources and explosive detonations. These sonar and explosive sources will be utilized during Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) Tracking Exercises, Mine Avoidance Training, Extended Echo Ranging and Improved Extended Echo Ranging (EER/IEER) events, Missile Exercises, Gunnery Exercises, Bombing Exercises, Sinking Exercises, and Mine Warfare Training…" (More listed in Navy E.I.S.)

Take Action!

Print off a copy of the "Petition to Stop the Proposed Navy Warfare Testing Program Expansion & The Killing of 32 Species of Marine Mammals Over 5 Years in The Pacific Ocean". Return it to Rosalind Peterson for hand delivery! (Address and contact info on petition page)

A change across the land

January 2009 - Rosalind Peterson continues to speak out about the degradation of our planet by the polluters of our air, land and water. Let's redouble our efforts this year to positive effect. Together we can make a difference! Read

NASA: Persistent jet contrails cause climate change

NASA noted in an October 2005 newsletter, that increasingly persistent jet contrails may turn into man-made clouds that are "trapping warmth in the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming".

NASA, based on its research and studies, goes on to state, "Any change in global cloud cover may contribute to long-term changes in Earth's climate. Contrails, especially persistent contrails, represent a human-caused increase in the Earth's cloudiness, and are likely to be affecting climate and ultimately our natural resources." Related NASA news release | Contrails and Cirrus Clouds - NASA Langley Research (PDF document) | NASA Pathfinder Contrail Studies | USA Contrails - Satellite image

ESA: Contrails study

The European Space Agency conducted 'Contrails', a project study on the environmental effects of increasing volumes of air traffic, by intensively monitoring the daily contrail and cirrus cloud coverage, for one year (2004), over Europe and the North Atlantic. Contrails over the USA Satellite image | Final Validation Report (7mb .pdf)

FYI from the GAO . . .

In it's February 2000 report 'Aviation and the Environment', the US General Accounting Office states:

"According to data from a 1999 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global aviation contributed about 145 million metric tons of carbon in 1996, or about 2.4 percent of all human-generated carbon emissions – an amount roughly equivalent to the total carbon emissions of Canada." Abstract (HTML) - Full Report (PDF) | Abstract IPPC 1999 Report (HTML)

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