COVID-19 lockdowns may have tanked economies, but they inflicted nary a nick on climate change, a new United Nations report says. A slight sputter notwithstanding while entire societies were locked down, global temperatures are continuing to trend upward and could pass what’s considered a milestone tipping point within a decade, the UN said. With greenhouse gas concentrations at record levels and increasing in Earth’s atmosphere and emissions heading back up toward pre-pandemic levels, the world is not on track to keep warming to a minimum as it needs to be, the World Meteorological Association said in a new report released Wednesday.
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