The pandemic has disrupted regular life, travel and business on a massive scale, a phenomenon that is still occurring in 2021, albeit on a lesser scale than at the beginning of the pandemic. But did this disruption of human behaviour at least achieve something positive: the slowing of climate change?“No,” says Pieter Tans, a climate scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , in a phone interview with CTVNews.ca.
The same report concluded that at the current rate the planet is warming, we have only 11 years left before global warming rises uncontrollably past the goals of the Paris Agreement. This natural variability is, on average, around 0.5 PPM — “more than twice as large as the [2020 air traffic] slowdown from less fossil fuel emissions,” he said.
Fossil fuel emissions aren’t the only way to measure the progression of climate change. According to a report entitled the, released last April by WMO, 2020 was one of the three warmest years on record, and that more than 80 per cent of the Earth’s oceans experienced at least one marine heatwave in 2020.
“They can be deployed at scale,” he said. “We know how to do this now, and it is cheaper, so we need to really work on that. This is the time to put measures in place to really phase out fossil fuels.” “The problem with something like CO2 is that it does not disappear. The CO2 that we emitted already starting in the 19th century, that CO2 is still with us. So it's a problem of cumulative emissions, not of annual emissions,” he said.
Didn't slow it because it's a bunch of crap like the vaccine for COVID not even happening. Just a way for government to tax you for some useless nonsense. How can money stop a glacier from melting? This has happened several times or are the scientist lying about that too.
Of course not, nothing can stop the climate from changing. It’s been happening for billions of years
Sheesh, those guys are in serious need of a hobby.
It’s not climate change, we entered begging of new ice age. We still got decent 10-20 years though.
Global Warming WAS the biggest fraud in the world.....till covid was forced on us by the baddies.
Nobody who cares is reading lamestreams enviro opinions. 😂😂
Too soon You tried this once already then Omnicron hit us
Scientists and activists are two separate concepts, one is about reasoning and facts, while the other one is about believing (could be blinded) and emotion, but we freely use one for another any way.
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