Wed.Nov 25, 2020

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Covid-related Emissions Drop “Just a Tiny Blip” in Long-term Climate Trends

Yale E360

As nations went into lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19, factories halted and cars sat idle, clearing the skies above polluted cities and sending climate-changing emissions to historic lows. But the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere ? the accumulation of past and current emissions ? remained virtually unchanged, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s annual estimate.