as I suggested in an earlier Diary www.dailykos.com/… the dramatic fall of air pollution over the Wuhan area of China demonstrates that yes- we humans do indeed have the wherewithal to impact anthropogenic climate change…. and ,as I have often said- the issue is “merely” systemic- not technical. The Italian C-19 restrictions reiterate that same point: earther.gizmodo.com/…
Before and after imagery from Santiago Gassó, a NASA atmospheric science researcher, shows the stark difference from before the covid-19 outbreak and after. The images at the top of the page show nitrogen dioxide emissions on March 7 and February 7, respectively. Santiago tweeted that the data still needed more formal verification, but he told Earther in an email that “in the last 48 hours, colleagues have been posting similar trends from other sensors, and even this morning ESA came out with a video confirming what I pointed out. So indeed the trend seems real.”
I’m getting more serious with my suggestion from that last Diary:
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? [before, ya know, it gets “lost” in a stock market crash] Teach people how to take a break without losing their shit? Or does it always have to be a damn apocalypse?