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Summary: The new crown is not related to the climate change. Developed countries have historical responsibility for the climate change |
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 5th, by wire Summary: The new crown is not related to the climate change. Developed countries have historical responsibility for the climate change
Xinhua News Agency reporter
Recently, there is seaForeign mediaThe body quoted a report written by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany, saying that climate change can promote closer contact between pathogen-carrying bats and humans. Therefore, there may be an indirect relationship between climate change and the new crown epidemic, and said that China It is the world‘s largest emitter of greenhouse gases. In this regard, many overseas experts pointed out that there is currently no evidence that there is a link between climate change and the new crown epidemic, and developed countries have an unshirkable historical responsibility for climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
There is no basis for the “indirect correlation”
Andrei Manoilo, a professor at Moscow State University in Russia, told Xinhua News Agency that the claim that climate change is related to the new coronavirus pandemic has no basis. Climate change is very complicated. For example, methane from swamps and many other greenhouse gases enter the earth’s atmosphere without being affected by human activities. All countries are responsible for climate change affected by human activities.
Paul Valdes, a professor of physical geography at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, pointed out that many aspects of the conclusions of the above-mentioned report by the British, American and German researchers have not been verified, especially the source of the new crown virus has not yet been determined, so no conclusion can be drawn on climate change. It has a great effect on the emergence of the new coronavirus.
Kate Jones, professor of ecology at University College London, UK, said that virus spillover is a complex process that not only involves ecological problems, but is also related to human exposure to the virus and the vulnerability of human beings to the virus.
Yuming Guo, professor of global environmental health and biostatistics at Monash University in Australia, said that there is no clear link between climate change and the new crown epidemic. He does not believe that climate change will cause the new crown epidemic. These are two different issues.
Alexander Gusev, director of the Russian Institute of Strategic Planning and Forecasting, told Xinhua reporters that claiming that there is an indirect relationship between climate change and the new crown pandemic is like tying the activity of the sun with the number of Siberian brown bears. “. To explore the causes of the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, it is necessary to study how the coronavirus mutates and spreads. To this end, careful and systematic scientific analysis methods should be adopted.
Historical responsibility cannot be shirk
In an interview with Xinhua News Agency, the director of Brazil’s Center for China Studies, Ronnie Lins, said that the problem of air pollution was accompanied by the industrialization of human society and first appeared in England in the second half of the 18th century. At that time, the UK used industrial equipment on a large scale and discharged a lot of pollutants. Later, as other regions in the world gradually began to industrialize, the problem of air pollution began to expand worldwide and had a negative impact, exacerbating the climate change problem facing human society today. Developed countries bear an unshirkable historical responsibility for climate change.
An article on “Fact Checking” published on the Deutsche Welle website not long ago said that from the perspective of per capita carbon dioxide emissions, if the data released by the non-governmental organization “Global Carbon Project” and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom “see the world with data” Combining the data from the website, in 2019, the per capita carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. exceeded 16 tons, and China’s per capita emissions were less than half that of the United States. From the historical emission assessment, from 1750 to 2019, China’s total carbon dioxide emissions were only Slightly more than half of the United States. Therefore, the article believes that from the perspective of net greenhouse gas emissions, climate change cannot be blamed on China.
The article quoted Robbie Andrew, a senior researcher at the International Center for Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, Norway, as saying that there is another problem that has been overlooked in emission statistics, that is, current carbon dioxide emission statistics are usually based on the producer principle, not the consumer principle. Many commodities around the world are produced in China. Earlier this year, Dutch and German scholars proposed that consumers should share the responsibility for carbon dioxide emissions.
Guo Yuming said that in terms of climate change, we must consider history and reality. Discussing greenhouse gas emission reduction at the global level should focus on how to provide technical and economic support to developing countries to help them reduce carbon emissions.
Lins emphasized that in recent years, some developing countries have made tremendous efforts to strengthen environmental protection and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and China is increasingly becoming a role model for the international community. Alexey Koklin, the head of the WWF’s “Climate and Energy” project in Russia, told Xinhua News Agency reporters that China’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions should be seen. In dealing with climate change, China has set a good example for many countries. (Notewriter: Zhang Xiaoru; Participating reporters: Chen Weihua, Zhao Yan, Zhang Yirong, Zhang Jiawei, Li Ao, Hao Yalin, Liu Shiyue)
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