Blockages or will the planet understand? Guardian ‘accidentally’ suggests shutdowns similar to Covid’s every 2 years to meet Paris climate targets – RT World News

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If carbon dioxide emissions do not fall the equivalent of a worldwide blockade “Approximately every two years” in the next decade, the Earth will heat up to apocalyptic levels, a team of researchers from the University of East Anglia warned in an article published in Nature on Wednesday.

This apparently excited a certain kind of climate fanatic on the Guardian team so much that they originally posted the article with the title “The global blockade every two years is necessary to meet the Paris CO2 targets – study.” After being dragged ruthlessly by this kind of fear pornography, the title was changed to “Emissions drop equivalent to Covid’s needed every two years – study” with an explainer who “Experts say” what “Equivalent falls in emissions over a decade” he would be “Necessary to maintain safe limits on global warming.”

Despite calling “Completely different methods” to achieve and halt the drop in pandemic emissions, lead researcher Corinne Le Quéré, however, insisted that climate change could not be a “Secondary issue. It cannot be about a law or a policy, it must be placed at the center of all policies. “

Each strategy and plan of each government must be consistent with combating climate change.

Although Le Quéré did not suggest that people be arbitrarily deprived of their freedom every two years to please one climate model, the other “Strategic actions” she mentioned that to maintain some of the gains from the pandemic they were already being implemented – and in many cases they had been implemented for years. From city planning to incentive “Active transport” (walking and cycling) and increasing public transport, to promote remote work wherever possible, their suggestions were not exactly new – and unlikely to convince anyone that they were sufficient.

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“There is a real contradiction between what governments are saying they are doing [to generate a green recovery], and what they’re doing, ” Le Quéré told the Guardian, calling the phenomenon “Very worrying.”

His co-researcher Glen Peters was more explicit about what countries of latitude should have to move away from fossil fuels in their own time, asking “Structural changes” to move savings towards renewable energy.

Some on social networks, seeing the “Quiet part” said out loud in the first edition of the Guardian article, it had a “I told you” time. The threat of ‘climate blocks’ was presented alternately and “Unmasked” by the mainstream media for months.

… Others initially assumed it should be a satire, because no one would post something that on-the-nose –

… except perhaps for the World Economic Forum, which actually posted a compliment for what the blockades did to cities – presumably turned them into uninhabitable informant hives where you can no longer watch a Broadway show – earlier this week , before removing your tweet under public pressure.

WEF posted a video praising the “silence” and lighter air – and lack of humans, although they didn’t say that part out loud.

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