Coronavirus: Space images reveal drastic fall in pollution over China

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Satellite images show a dramatic drop in pollution over China after the coronavirus outbreak shut down swathes of the country’s industry and travel.

US space agency Nasa said the change was at least partly related to the economic slowdown caused by efforts to contain the virus.

Scientists have previously found the coronavirus wiped out at least a quarter of China’s emissions of damaging greenhouse gases in just two weeks in mid-February. Closing industrial plants and asking people to stop at home has led to sharp drops in the burning of fossil fuels — a key cause of the climate crisis — in the world’s largest greenhouse gas producer.

“This is the first time I have seen such a dramatic drop-off over such a wide area for a specific event,” said Fei Liu, an air quality researcher at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Centre.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-coronavirus-nasa-space-satellite-pollution-photo-image-a9366751.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3XCLQQHWujjcWPXkVaXTp7bZlTvxn0fOBxwMpMiWNZ_VNlRe3GfWjsSXI#Echobox=1583013283

[weed 78,957]

obviously I don't want to celebrate COVID but that's amazing... kind of shows how major pollution can be undone

[FentyGa 14,340]

maybe we need to take this virus WORLDWIDE

edit: this is 80% serious only 20% joke

[ShayCristoforo 10,607]

Maybe earth’s way of getting back at us lol 

[Quartz 12,762]

1 minute ago, FentyGa said:

maybe we need to take this virus WORLDWIDE

Distasteful. Funny, but distasteful. 

[FentyGa 14,340]

1 minute ago, Quartz said:

Distasteful. Funny, but distasteful. 

but i mean...is overpopulation not a major factor regarding global warming?

[vyniildisk 12,689]

This is so impressive. I am going to share this everywhere starting right now. I was checking a yt video the other day about a girl that was in shock to see the sun and the moon properly over China 

[AmericanxDream 2,049]

China reducing their pollution sounds great.

[Fresco 1,688]

It's been predicted that China GDP will drop from 6% growth to 3% growth or less because of covid-19.

An unexpected win for climate change with the reduction in fossil fuel consumption. There will be a day when electric or hydrogen cars will be widely used.  China can push the transition faster than more market based economies if they choose to.

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7 minutes ago, weed said:

obviously I don't want to celebrate COVID but that's amazing... kind of shows how major pollution can be undone

Well pollution over metros legit can disapate in like 2-3 days tops if we stop polluting

 

The accomulater green houses gases on earths atmosphere... That's another story

 

 

[Economy 52,857]

5 minutes ago, FentyGa said:

but i mean...is overpopulation not a major factor regarding global warming?

I say it's more an issue of how much we consume and industrialization not just population

 

1 Billion people in developed world have a bigger ecological footprint than the bottom 3-4 billion combined

[Creyk 18,660]

11 minutes ago, weed said:

obviously I don't want to celebrate COVID but that's amazing... kind of shows how major pollution can be undone

The thing is china doesn't care about environmental issues and that is the real issue

[LadyxGaGa 3,220]

12 minutes ago, FentyGa said:

maybe we need to take this virus WORLDWIDE

THANK U, she is doing all this work with no promo! like sissy’s team might be doing payola but girl is dominating as a new girl on the scene. billie eilish who and her save the turtles campaign could never impact. Coronanation is so happy rn 

[Quartz 12,762]

7 minutes ago, FentyGa said:

but i mean...is overpopulation not a major factor regarding global warming?

Yes. But a life is a life. We can't just disregard human life like that. Every one of us is special. We can coexist with nature, we just haven't figured it out yet.

[Francesca Cipriani 1,668]

I live in Milan, which is also a very polluted city in Italy, and in these days, due to a massive quarantine and a large number of people (myself included) working from home, the smog dropped drastically