Whadayaknow…. With a pissing contest between the House of Saud and Mr ‘No Corva 19 here’ Putin and then the quarantine in ‘Yes we do have Corva 19’ China, [and now Italy] the Planet got a much needed breath of fresh air recently . Here’s a quick take on Chinese emissions:
"It is an unprecedentedly dramatic drop in emissions," says Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, who tallied the reductions. "I've definitely spoken to people in Shanghai who said that it's been some of the most pristine blue skies that they remember over the winter."
Myllyvirta estimates that China's carbon emissions have dropped by a quarter over the same period.
…..https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/04/811019032/why-chinas-air-has-been-cleaner-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak
And this on the oil markets :
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) updated its oil market forecast on Monday, and it projects that global oil demand will continue in a downward pattern this year due to the virus. The market had already suffered its most dramatic and sudden quarterly drop in history. The IEA’s February forecast for the year had called for demand to grow by 825,000 barrels a day, but the revised version calls for demand to drop by 90,000 barrels a day compared to 2019.https://earther.gizmodo.com/yearly-oil-demand-is-now-projected-to-drop-for-the-firs-1842211458
Don’t suppose the world could ever try just stopping everything on an regular basis now could it? Like maybe 4 weeks on , then 2 weeks off. Rotate it around like shift work ….. make sure the trillions in stashed “wealth” gets used to feed folk through the ‘off’ times? Teach people how to take a break without losing their shit? Or does it always have to be a damn apocalypse?