Coronavirus is bad for the climate even on the most macro levels. Lockdowns and social distancing have slowed climate research around the world or ground it to a halt. NASA is on mandatory telework. Research flights to the Arctic have been stopped, and fieldwork everywhere is being canceled. No one knows how much climate data will never be collected as a result, or when research might be able to start up again...
Perhaps the real question is not whether the virus is “good” or “bad” for climate, or whether rich people will take fewer airplane flights, but whether we can create a functioning economy that supports people without threatening life on Earth, including our own.
What more research needs to be done......Either you believe it or you dont.......which doesn't even matter....What matters is if people change their habits which they won't....So what is the point.....We already have lots of believers and none of them are willing to change...Is more research going to make the believers finally change?
We already have lots of believers and none of them are willing to change.
Correct. Any who truly believe can access solar/wind power over fossil fuel generated electricity at any time. Just stop using the dryer and use a clothesline. By doing so, you replace the biggest energy hog in your house with free, non polluting sun and breeze.
Perhaps the real question is not whether the virus is “good” or “bad” for climate, or whether rich people will take fewer airplane flights, but whether we can create a functioning economy that supports people without threatening life on Earth, including our own.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-climate-change.html