Posted on 03/18/2020 11:28:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In Venice, the often murky canals recently began to get clearer, with fish visible in the water below. Italy’s efforts to limit the coronavirus meant an absence of boat traffic in the city’s famous waterways. And the changes happened quickly.
Countries that have been under stringent lockdowns to stop the spread of the coronavirus have experienced an unintended benefit. The outbreak has, at least in part, contributed to a noticeable drop in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in some nations.
Though grim, it’s something that scientists said could offer tough lessons for how to prepare — and ideally avoid — the most destructive impacts of climate change.
“If we can think about how to prepare for climate change like a pandemic, maybe there will be a positive outcome to all of this,” said Christopher Jones, lead developer of the CoolClimate Network, an applied research consortium at the University of California, Berkeley. “We can help prevent crises in the future if we are prepared. I think there are some big-picture lessons here that could be very useful.”
Jacqueline Klopp, co-director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University in New York City, said she expects to see greenhouse gas emissions plummet across the board because of the quarantine measures.
“People were in their homes and really stopped a lot of the activities that lead to greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution,” she said.
But experts warn that these reductions are temporary, and that as countries and economies bounce back, so too will emissions — unless major infrastructure or societal changes are adopted.
Klopp said the pandemic could make companies and governments realize that other threats to humanity, including climate change, could be just as devastating, and that it’s imperative to develop protective measures.
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And there you go.
I love going out and flying my SUV around the almost-empty highways where I live. Thanks Governor Cuomo!
Don’t forget the drop in the spread of AIDS and other STDs
Yep. Goebbels would be proud.
Whoa unto you who would call evil good and good evil; Wbo would call bitter sweet and sweet bitter.
Major league dumbass article. It’s also beneficial to be dead! No more bills!
We could clean a lot up if we deported 50 million people who don’t belong here.
So their ideal fantasy is to remove people??
Then it was all worth it. /s
Pandemics are liberal, watermelons' wet dream; clean environment and dead people. Only fly in their ointment is that they cannot control who dies...yet.
The logic of this argument would to stop all efforts to control the Wuhan flu and when “everybody dies” the Earth will return to its previously pristine state ... maybe even the unicorns will regenerate.
ummm- nope- forgive the site- but they just had a story about that lol
Millions are going to get very hurt financially and these deluded fools are happy because less people are driving to work. These people are dangerous.
Maybe that will shut the chicken little assholes’ mouths.
I will agree with the reduced pollution, but I don’t consider CO2 a pollutant either.
Sulfur, Nitrates etc... going down is good!
But the shutdown usually hits the poor worse, especially in the long term.
Hope we can bring it all back online soon.
Maybe the libtards will get their wish for reduced world population. Too bad the ChiCom flu doesn’t target certain political affiliations. j/k
So we’ll call it the “Gretavirus”
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