Columbia University: COVID-19's Long-Term Effects on Climate Change - For Better or Worse
June 26, 2020
June 26, 2020
NEW YORK, June 26 -- Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following news:
As a result of the lockdowns around the world to control COVID-19, huge decreases in transportation and industrial activity resulted in a drop in daily global carbon emissions of 17 percent in April. Nonetheless, CO2 levels in the atmosphere reached their highest monthly average ever recorded in May -- 417.1 parts per million. This is because the carbon dioxide humans have already . . .
As a result of the lockdowns around the world to control COVID-19, huge decreases in transportation and industrial activity resulted in a drop in daily global carbon emissions of 17 percent in April. Nonetheless, CO2 levels in the atmosphere reached their highest monthly average ever recorded in May -- 417.1 parts per million. This is because the carbon dioxide humans have already . . .