Bloomberg News?

[The Sound Guy]

Can anyone explain to me exactly what this means? I've never seen temperature change described by parts per million before???

Widespread lockdowns that have shuttered factories and kept people at home stands to reduce global carbon emissions by 8% this year, the biggest reduction ever, according to the International Energy Agency. But even that won’t be enough to reverse warming temperatures, which have been rising steadily by an average of almost 2.5 parts per million a year since 2010.

It sounds like they are trying to make a .00025% increase in average temperature look bigger. LOL.

The article is interesting, but it's gonna make the libs crazy. It states that with the pandemic, automobile use is becoming the transportation method of choice over public transportation all over the world as the economy's of the world start opening up again.

James Li, a public relations account director, would rather spend an hour sitting in Beijing traffic than risk 30 minutes exposed to crowds on a train. “Traffic is as bad as it could be” but the subway is still too dicey, he said.

In Frankfurt, real estate assistant Anna Pawliczek is driving to work for the first time in her career. “I definitely have always preferred to chill out in the train, instead of being stuck at traffic lights,” she said. But days after Germany ended its lockdown, her company is asking returning employees to avoid public transportation at all costs.

Gasoline demand is rebounding, suggesting that the car -- at least for now -- is making a comeback. As lockdowns ease and parts of the world reopen for business, driving has emerged as the socially distant transportation mode of choice and is offering some near-term relief to an oil market fresh off its worst crash in history and reeling from an unprecedented collapse in energy demand.

“People are using more their cars because they are afraid to use public transportation,” Patrick Pouyanne, the chief executive of French oil giant Total SA, said.

Gasoline’s recovery may extend into summer amid changes in the way people vacation. In the U.S., demand for long-haul recreational vehicles has picked up as people opt for road trips over air travel. Jon Gray, chief executive officer of RVshare, said bookings in some areas have more than doubled compared with last year. “We saw an almost overnight doubling of bookings” as lockdowns showed signs of ending, he said.

It looks to be an interesting recovery.

 

[Guard Dad]

I suspect it's yet another case of a reporter who knows nothing about science writing at article about it. I have to laugh when I read most of these because the writers usually don't even know how to properly use the terminology involved.

As to the gist of the article...it stands to reason that reduced driving and manufacturing would temporarily reduce air pollution from those sources. While I'm sure the "greenies" are giddy over this, we can't just sacrifice our economy and lifestyle over it. We must continue to look for new energy technologies to reduce pollution.

It should also be noted that depending how accurate and widespread their sampling rate was, their measured reductions in pollution could be partially due to weather patterns.

 

[J-man]

I’m confused (not really but let’s go with it anyway)...so they don’t want the temps to rise and kill the virus? Got it.