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Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement

Corinne Le Quéré, Robert B. Jackson, Matthew W. Jones

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Adam J. P. Smith, Sam Abernethy, Robbie M. Andrew, Anthony J. De-Gol, David R. Willis, Yuli Shan, Josep G. Canadell, Pierre Friedlingstein, Felix Creutzig, Glen P. Peters

2020 · Nature Climate Change

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> The latter policy really emphasizes to me that that there are a large number of people who do not want to change their behaviour in any way, and would much rather have a corporate scapegoat to point at. I find this to be a fairly common perspective, when talking to Canadians online; and there's some data to support that it is[0][1]. The truth is that individuals are _hugely_ influential on carbon emissions, and changes to individual consumption, commuting, and so forth are necessary if we're to tackle climate change meaningfully. The Covid lockdowns made the impact of individuals irrefutably clear.[2][3][4] 0: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/election-poll-climate-chang... 1: https://globalnews.ca/news/8139537/canada-climate-change-eco... 2: https://pcc.uw.edu/blog/research/how-did-covid-19-affect-our... 3: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0797-x 4: https://earth.stanford.edu/news/covid-lockdown-causes-record...
Original comment Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed
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1. ASN inspectors reports are not edited by their president or directors (commissaires). The whole structure is based on engineers. Inspectors are strictly engineers. 2. Most nuclear engineer are from Grenoble/Saint-etienne or Lyon. Some are from polytech (so Paris) but this is rare. 3. If you say so. It might conflict with greepeace's vision of ecology, but not with the IPCC's and for multiple reasons, i think i would rather follow scientists than ideologists. I also stopped donating to greenpeace around 2015 so i might be biased. 4. Way more complex than that, but true. I think you should read ASN documentation before evaluating them as untrustworthy. I can find a lot…
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of untrustworthy pro-nuclear sources. Those are not ran by engineers. Also nuclear power is a distraction until we fixed our real ecological issue, as are renewable power sources. I don't care if we stop nuclear power in 2080 if we successfully limit the average warming to 2°C (hint: hope for a silver bullet). I'm ready do donate everything i have (not that much) to any anti-nuclear association that explain to me how to effectively reduce our CO2 emission by 4% a year until 2050 (compounds are hard but this is the number i got) while focusing on replacing nuclear plant by solar panels and wind turbines. Really. Covid will be between 2 and 9% for 2020 [0] so i'm waiting for solutions for the following years. Wait! i have multiples solutions. Give every french household using oil or gas a heatpump. Forbid new individual cars sold in France to weight more than a metric ton. Put a carbon tax (start with a small amount 10k€/ton) on transportation instead of a 20% VAT. Not on car gas, on the product directly. This will kill most plane fret, but honestly? i don't care. Forbid plane if the trip can be made in less than 4 hour by train (i think they recently did this, good). But closing a nuclear plant to replace it by gas (and coal, even if temporary) is easier. Gazprom and Total really have more hitting power. [0]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0797-x
Original comment Why is the Fessenheim 2 nuclear power plant closing in France?
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Yes, significantly, and almost entirely a result of individuals no longer using their cars. Note these studies took place at various different times during the lockdown, and focus on different scopes of data: https://pcc.uw.edu/blog/research/how-did-covid-19-affect-our... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0797-x https://earth.stanford.edu/news/covid-lockdown-causes-record...
Original comment Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'

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