Name: 冠狀病毒。科維德為氣候危機做了什麼？- BBC新聞 (Coronavirus: What has Covid done for climate crisis? - BBC News)
Uploaded: 2021-01-05T18:20:13.000Z
Duration: 2 min 45 s

Co vid 19改變了我們的生活方式。

Lockdowns mean People around the world have taken fewer car journeys.

鎖定意味著世界各地的人們減少了汽車出行。

Flights have been grounded on, industry has shut down on.

班機已停飛上，工業已停產上。

You can see the difference that's made to air quality in some of the most polluted cities.

你可以看到，在一些汙染最嚴重的城市，空氣質量的變化。

Carbon dioxide, one of the key greenhouse gas, is responsible for climate change.

二氧化碳是重要的溫室氣體之一，是造成氣候變化的原因。

A za pandemic spread around the Globe Co two emissions did fall.

一za大疫情在全球co二排放確實下降。

Falls in emissions have been bigger than in any past economic slowdown, including during the Second World War.

排放量的下降比以往任何一次經濟放緩都要大，包括第二次世界大戰期間。

This may sound like good news for our climate, but it's not that simple.

這對我們的氣候來說，聽起來好像是個好消息，但事實並非如此簡單。

Think of carbon emissions like the taps filling a bathtub.

想想碳排放就像水龍頭灌滿浴缸一樣。

This year, those taps have bean turns down the water, or the CO two is flowing a bit more slowly, but the bath is still filling up.

今年，那些水龍頭的水都豆轉下來了，或者說CO二的流速慢了一些，但浴池裡還是滿滿的。

In fact, on the first of June 2020 while many countries were in lockdowns, the concentration of CO two in the atmosphere reached its highest level in human history and quite possibly the highest in three million years.

事實上，在2020年6月1日，當許多國家處於封鎖狀態時，大氣中的一氧化碳二的濃度達到了人類歷史上的最高水準，很可能是300萬年來的最高水準。

So our carbon bathtub is pretty full on we can't just simply pull out the plug.

所以我們的碳素浴缸是很滿的，我們不能簡單的拔掉插頭。

Carbon dioxide is absorbed by the plants and the oceans like natural sponges.

二氧化碳像天然海綿一樣被植物和海洋吸收。

But this takes time CO two emitted today will still be in the atmosphere in hundreds of years.

但這需要時間，今天排放的CO兩在幾百年後仍會在大氣中存在。

So there needs to be a long term drop in carbon dioxide output to make a real difference to the climate crisis On the question is, what will the recovery from the pandemic look like?

所以，需要長期減少二氧化碳的輸出，才能真正改變氣候危機問題是，大流行病的復甦會是什麼樣的？

We've already seen that as countries economies open up again, emissions also return to their upward trend for them to continue slowing down some of the changes.

我們已經看到，隨著各國經濟的再次開放，排放也回到了上升的趨勢，讓他們繼續減緩一些變化。

The pandemics forced us to make toe work, industry and travel would have to become more permanent.

疫情迫使我們使趾工、工業和旅行將不得不變得更加長久。

Even while the world's attention has been focused on coronavirus, the effects of climate change have continues.

即使全世界的注意力都集中在冠狀病毒上，但氣候變化的影響還在繼續。

 2020 is set to end up as one of the warmest years on record. 

2020年最終將成為有史以來最溫暖的年份之一。