Experts declared that climate change is a far greater threat than the coronavirus.
"It is important that all the attention that needs to be given to fight this disease does not distract us from the need to defeat climate change," U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday, according toAlthough emissions have been reduced due to the virus, Guterres noted that"we will not fight climate change with a virus.
2019 ended with a global average temperature that was 1.1 degree Celsius above estimated pre-industrial levels, second only to the record set in 2016, when a very strong El Niño event contributed to an increased global temperature atop the overall warming trend. The main greenhouse gases that cause global warming are carbon dioxide and methane, which are emitted from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas.
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