UN: COVID-19 lockdowns slashed pollutants, not CO2 levels

[jmyrlefuller]

https://www.wivb.com/news/world/un-covid-19-lockdowns-slashed-pollutants-not-co2-levels/

WMO cited estimates from the Global Carbon Project indicating that daily carbon dioxide emissions could have fallen by as much as 17% worldwide during the peak of the lockdown period when people in many countries were forced to stay home. But figures for the whole year remain unclear, and WMO said preliminary estimates indicate a reduction in annual global emissions of between 4.2% and 7.5%.

The lockdown has cut emissions of many pollutants and greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. But the change in CO2 concentrations – the result of cumulative past and current emissions – is in fact no bigger than the normal year-to-year fluctuations in the carbon cycle and in the amount of carbon being soaked up by vegetation and oceans.

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[Smokin Joe]

Maybe humans just don't have as much of an effect as we are being told. It's a big world out there...

[Hoodat]

But the change in CO2 concentrations – the result of cumulative past and current emissions – is in fact no bigger than the normal year-to-year fluctuations in the carbon cycle and in the amount of carbon being soaked up by vegetation and oceans.

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According to the actual scientific data, CO₂ levels are driven by global temperature.  And global temperature is driven by the sun and it's relation to the earth's orbit (which is cyclical).  Only a complete dumbass would suggest that fascist lockdowns would lower global CO₂ levels.