How coronavirus impacts climate change with emissions reductions (only 10.89 years left)

Good Morning America via MSN ^ | 3/05/20 | Julia Jacobo

[Libloather]

The emergence of the coronavirus as a world health epidemic and fears of it spreading have halted air and ground travel in some regions of the world and stalled it elsewhere, significantly reducing the amount of carbon emissions being released into the atmosphere.

Pollution monitoring satellites from NASA and the European Space Agency have detected significant decreases of nitrogen dioxide over China since Jan. 1, following the outbreak of the virus -- evidence that the noxious gas being emitted by motor vehicles, power plants and industrial facilities has nearly come to a complete stop.

And China isn't the only part of the world where emissions from travel have slowed down. Almost every U.S. air carrier has suspended international flights to affected areas and has issued traveled waives for passengers who have flights booked in the coming months. In addition, global air traffic decreased by 4.3% in February amid the COVID-19 outbreak, aircraft flight traffic website FlightRadar24 announced on Tuesday.

The question is: Is the reduction in emissions enough to mitigate climate change and the environmental dangers that come with it? According to experts, the answer is no.

[Libloather]

When pollution is released into the air, the particulates "actually have a shielding effect" from the sun, Dutton said. "If you take that away, then it has the opposite effect," and the planet could warm even faster, Dutton said.

We're doomed no matter how you slice it.

[SkyDancer]

(only 10.89 years left)

Algore said we'd be doomed in 2005.

[SkyDancer]

Make that “by” 2005

[HighSierra5]

Yeah,the coastlines were supposed to be under 20 ft of water by now. Riiight.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Protection from coronavirus infection...

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[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I thought that would have at least delayed The End by a couple of months, but they claim this downturn in pollution hasn’t mitigated the probkem.

I remember reading some years ago about what some consider the ultimate green lifestyle. They found some village in South America, maybe Bolivia, and the article showed a photo of a thatch-roofed mud hut and a dirty-faced little boy standing in front of it.

[gibsonguy]

So the virus is going to save the planet?

[txrefugee]

Or “The Bright Side of Plagues”

[Grampa Dave]

“The Bright Side of Plagues”

How are things in Iran?

[willk]

I thought this was satire for a few seconds.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

This was noted in WW II and just after 9-11.

https://globalnews.ca/news/2934513/empty-skies-after-911-set-the-stage-for-an-unlikely-climate-change-experiment/

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

And Chicago was supposed to be under a mile of ice due to the 1970s fear of THE COMING ICE AGE!

[oldasrocks]

So if we all die off the planet will be saved?

[No.6]

>According to experts, the answer is no.

According to experts, the planet will avoid catastrophe only by, and the moment that, the United States subjects itself to taxation authority by an external international government. All the blather is a means to that end.