That’s good news for climahysterics, isn’t it? Of course, they are all Very Concerned that people will start living modern lives again soon (there are lots of charts at the Washington Post link)
Global emissions plunged an unprecedented 17 percent during the coronavirus pandemic
The wave of shutdowns and shuttered economies caused by the coronavirus pandemic fueled a momentous decline in global greenhouse gas emissions, although one unlikely to last, a group of scientists reported Tuesday.
As infections surged in March and April, nations worldwide experienced an abrupt reduction in driving, flying and industrial output, leading to a startling decline of more than 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions. That includes a peak drop in daily emissions of 17 percent in early April, according to the study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change. For some nations, the falloff was much steeper.
Scientists have long insisted that the world must scale back carbon pollution significantly — and quickly — to mitigate the worst effects of climate change over the coming decades, although none have suggested that a deadly global pandemic is the way to do so.
Tuesday’s study projects that total emissions for 2020 will probably fall between 4 and 7 percent compared with last year — an unheard-of drop in normal times but considerably less dramatic than the decline during the first few months of the year, when economies screeched to a halt. The final 2020 figure will depend on how rapidly, or cautiously, people around the world resume ordinary life.
The unprecedented situation produced by the coronavirus has offered a glimpse at the massive cuts in global emissions, year after year, that would be required to meet the most ambitious goals set by world leaders when they forged the 2015 Paris climate accord. Last fall, a United Nations report estimated that global greenhouse gas emissions must begin falling by 7.6 percent each year beginning in 2020 to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
Have you enjoyed your test drive of a Modern Socialist world where their ‘climate change’ policies are enacted? Being locked down? Law enforcement pulling you over during your few drives to check where you’re going? Telling you you cannot go to your vacation home? Being told who is essential and who isn’t? Telling you where you can go and when? What activities are allowed? What you are allowed to purchase?
Tuesday’s study underscores how far the world remains from that long-term aspiration. The forced plunge in greenhouse gas emissions in recent months, while extraordinary, returned carbon pollution only to levels last seen in 2006. And the changes are unlikely to last.
Warmists want to put you further in the hole.
Although some aspects of life may change in the wake of the pandemic — more people working remotely, fewer people commuting and taking frequent plane trips — individual changes are unlikely to make much of a long-term mark on emissions, said Zeke Hausfather, a scientist and director of climate and energy at the Breakthrough Institute.
“Unless anything structurally changes, we can expect emissions to go back to where they were before this whole thing happened,†he said.
Structural, meaning Government dictating your life. Interestingly, here’s the BBC News article on the same subject of the emissions drop
“A big worry that people will naturally want to go back to their cars to go to work, and that could rebound the emissions to the same level or even higher than before, once everybody goes back,” said Prof Corinne Le Quéré from the University of East Anglia, who led the analysis.
The researchers say that fundamental, systemic change is needed if the emissions curve is to be flattened in a way that would limit the very worst impacts of climate change.
Interestingly, most of these same climate cult scientists refuse to give up their own use of fossil fueled travel. They just want government to restrict yours, along with the rest of your life.
