Cities with more people tend to produce less CO2. Well, maybe.NASA satellite offers urban carbon dioxide insightshttps://phys.org/news/2020-03-nasa-satellite-urban-carbon-dioxide.html
The world’s largest financier of fossil fuels has warned clients that the climate crisis threatens the survival of humanity and that the planet is on an unsustainable trajectory.The JP Morgan report on the economic risks of human-caused global heating said climate policy had to change or else the world faced irreversible consequences.The study implicitly condemns the US bank’s own investment strategy and highlights growing concerns among major Wall Street institutions about the financial and reputational risks of continued funding of carbon-intensive industries, such as oil and gas.
The calculations conclude that this year Germany-wide could be 1.0 to 1.5 degrees warmer than the average of the reference period between 1981 and 2010. The average temperature in the years 2025 to 2029 will be particularly in the west and East Germany are even 1.5 to 2.0 degrees higher. Globally speaking, the past year was, according to the DWD, the second warmest since global records began in 1850. The decade 2010 to 2019 was therefore the historically warmest.Drought must be expected in the next five years. The forecasts are particularly important for agriculture and forestry."We are the first generation to measure, observe and scientifically analyze the effects of man-made climate change so comprehensively," said Gerhard Adrian, President of the DWD and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). "This knowledge is in the world and can no longer be swept under the table."Adrian urged more engagement in the fight against climate change. The greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere is still increasing, the global mean temperature continues to rise and the global sea level is increasing. "All the important adjustment screws are still turning in the wrong direction.
JP Morgan economists are concerned about the Covid-19 crisis, but they worry even more about the effects of global warming.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/21/jp-morgan-economists-warn-climate-crisis-threat-human-race
Les, I hate to say this. But climate change spending is over. No one is going to care about it as everyone will be looking for a job. Government will have no money to spend on alternate resources to carbon fuels. They'll be spending on Social Security payments and unemployment checks. Paris Accord is over. Period. On the good side, with less business, there will be less carbon burning so less CO2.
I'm willing to bet that they'll still find the money to buy military armaments and hire lobbiests to petition for lower taxes. Always money magically available for that.
Corona crisis makes weather forecasts more uncertain - translated from an article in German Spiegel. Because air traffic has largely ceased due to the Corona crisis, weather forecasts and climate observations are becoming more difficult. The weather models lack data that normally comes from sensors on aircraft. "If even less weather data is provided by aircraft and this over a longer period of time, the reliability of weather forecasts is likely to decrease," said Lars Peter Riishojgaard, group leader at the World Weather Organization (WMO), in Geneva. Weather conditions are also more difficult to predict, according to WMO. Above all, this would pose a risk to countries that need to prepare in advance to prepare for weather disasters.Sensors on around 3,000 specially equipped commercial aircraft usually provide data on temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity and turbulence. This data is now missing. The WMO reports a drastic slump for Europe in March, from more than 700,000 to a few thousand weather data per day.In addition to airplanes, almost 70 weather satellites and more than 10,000 ground stations provide data, according to the WMO. This is largely automated in industrialized countries - but if the crisis persists, there is a risk that the systems could fail due to lack of maintenance and repair. In developing countries, a lot of measurement data would be recorded manually. These observations have already decreased significantly in the past few weeks.
This has nothing to do with weather extremes, but with the forecast difficulties...
Who cares? We are stuck in homes anyway
Poor air quality reduces immunity ..., just saying.
So does aging.....
It adds up. Average life expectancy is reduced by 13 months in my country, due to Particulate Matter emissions (PM10, and more importantly PM2.5). The number of Asthma cases at young ages is increasing disproportionally.
Fortunately, those thirteen months would have come at the end when you're drooling, pissing in your pants, are impotent, and can't remember anything anyway. So if you were alive, you'd be thankful you're dead.
No, the issues develop already from a young age, and affects one's well-being throughout life. Productivity is reduced, people's health is reduced, and it leads to all sorts of deceases like heart problems and kidney failure, to name a few. It also reduces the immune system's ability to fend off or reduce the severity of viruses and bacterial infections.
The arrival of spring does not only affect the behaviour of a virus, however. It also produces changes in the human immune system, other researchers point out. “Our immune system displays a daily rhythm, but what is less known is how this varies from season to season,” said immunologist Natalie Riddell at Surrey University.To find out, Riddell and other researchers at Surrey and Columbia Universities have been studying immune changes in humans at different seasons and different times of day. Biological samples were taken from volunteers at the winter and summer solstices and the spring and autumn equinoxes. Initial findings suggest a subset of white blood cells that play a key role in the immune system appear to be elevated at certain times of day, indicating that the system responds differently at varying times. For example, B cells that produce antibodies were found to be elevated at night.Impact of seasons on cell rhythms is still under investigation, added the study’s leader, Micaela Martinez of Columbia University. Results would be of considerable importance, she added. “Knowing the vulnerabilities of our body to diseases and viruses across the year could inform the timing of vaccination campaigns that will help us eradicate infections.”
