Google lowers carbon emissions data for flight tracking service

When Google launched its carbon accounting tool last fall,

The air travel tracking service has drawn widespread attention and praise from industry leaders and climate scientists.However, the IT giant has quietly changed the algorithm, and now the emissions data on the flights it indicates is much lower than before.

"Google has removed a huge chunk of the aviation industry's climate impact from its pages," the doctor told the BBCDoug Parr, Chief Research Officer and Policy Director at Greenpeace UK.

The change, Google said in a public post on Github last month, was made after consulting with the tech giant's "academic and industrial partners."In a Github post, Google said it had decided to calculate only the carbon dioxide emissions from the flights, not the cumulative effectIn particular, Google has decided to temporarily abandon thecalculations related to contrals – clouds formed behind aircraft, which canhave a big impact on flight emissions.

Google says it's difficult to calculate the impact of contraints on individual flights, and while it's worth doing, they want to develop a mechanism to make predictions more accurate.