Virus slowdown pushes global carbon emissions to 14-year low

Grounded flights, emptied highways and shuttered factories caused global carbon-dioxide emissions to fall to levels not seen since 2006 as stay-at-home orders peaked last month.

To an optimist, the CO₂ numbers during the lockdown show that “it’s possible to reduce emissions. That’s just not the way that we want to do it,” said Glen Peters, research director of the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, and a co-author of the study. “So we just have to figure out another way to do it. But we know we can do it.”

That such an undesirable and dramatic sequence of events sets back the global emissions rate just 14 years — to a year already inflamed by a landmark U.K. climate study and Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth – may be the pandemic’s most consequential climate lesson. If anything, COVID-19 may lead to greater awareness of the scale of the challenge to bring climate change under control. A UN report from last fall suggested that global emissions need to fall 7.6 per cent every year from 2020 to 2030 for the world to have a chance at limiting global warming to 1.5°C.

Now we just need to maintain it once normal activity resumes. AI is the future and a way to meet our needs without harming our planet. Sustainability

Whoopee. is this your Utopia? no children in school. Parents going crazy. People getting arrested for nothing. business closures up. bankruptcies up. depression up. domestic abuse up. substance abuse up. suicides up. ...get your priorities straight.

Now we have a data point: the cost of carbon emission reduction is 15-20% unemployment and massive public debt.

CHINA & INDIA SHUT DOWN. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

Who cares it was a bs issue anyway. Now we have something real to focus on.

Not that it was an issue to start with

So we have our answer. To meet the greens goals we simply have to shutter the economy. Seems reasonable

Co2 has not lowered. So maybe the reigning theory has holes in it.

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