In the coronavirus pandemic, carbon emissions have fallen, but climate change remains an ...
SAN FRANCISCO — In a world desperate for good news about the coronavirus, a dip in global carbon emissions caused by the outbreak’s economic downturn might be seen as a silver lining. But climate scientists and policy experts aren’t encouraged. Global oil demand has plummeted by an estimated 20 percent as economies around the world have ground to a halt, cars and trucks have been idled and dramatically fewer jets leave contrails across the sky. As expected, compiled by San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography appears to show the rate ...
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