
A small plastic replica of the Statue of Liberty on a balcony at Frankfurt’s Westend, Aug. 30, plus contrails of a plane in the background. (Would love to see the one in New York one day…)

A small plastic replica of the Statue of Liberty on a balcony at Frankfurt’s Westend, Aug. 30, plus contrails of a plane in the background. (Would love to see the one in New York one day…)

The top of the Main Plaza building on the banks of river Main in Frankfurt at nightfall, Aug.21.

A bovine skull greets visitors to the small village of Kirchlotheim, close to the Edersee national park, around midnight, Aug.16.

Fresh and older contrails spread over the otherwise blue sky over Frankfurt, Aug.15, contributing to what is called ‘Global Darkening’. According to scientists, our planet has not only been getting warmer, but also darker. Over the past decades the quantity of sunlight that is reaching the earth’s surface might have reduced by 20 percent due to air pollution and aerosols.