Carbon emissions are forecast to fall by 5% this year. The only remotely similar drop came after the 2008 financial crisis (1.4%). These two data points give us a valuable toolkit for reaching future emissions goals!http://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20200403-covid-19-biggest-drop-in-co2-emissions-since-wwii-but-little-impact-on-climate-change …
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For context, we would need to drop emissions by 25% in the next decade to limit warming to 2 degrees, and 55% (eleven times the impact of our current economic shutdown) to limit it to 1.5 degrees. In other words, it's not going to happen.https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/27/world/climate-change-un-emission-report-2018-wxc/index.html …
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We would need the economic impact of eleven concurrent pandemics for a decade to save Florida and it's just not worth it
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