<story><title>Planet is &apos;way off track&apos; in dealing with climate change, U.N. report says</title><url>https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/multi-agency-report-highlights-increasing-signs-and-impacts-of-climate-change</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jl6</author><text>Can’t help but feel the coronavirus lockdowns are a good trial run for a low carbon world: limited travel, local food and entertainment, less consumption of non-essentials.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>svara</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s also a great demonstration that it&amp;#x27;s really hard to get people to believe that something they can&amp;#x27;t see is real.&lt;p&gt;Coronavirus cases have been growing stably and predictably for weeks. Epidemiologists (and not only they) saw it coming. No panic would have been necessary if calm, decisive action had been taken early on. But somehow the panic seems to be necessary. Normalcy bias is real.&lt;p&gt;These past weeks have been really instructive about collective human behavior, and have me really worried about our ability as a species to address climate change.</text></comment>
<story><title>Planet is &apos;way off track&apos; in dealing with climate change, U.N. report says</title><url>https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/multi-agency-report-highlights-increasing-signs-and-impacts-of-climate-change</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jl6</author><text>Can’t help but feel the coronavirus lockdowns are a good trial run for a low carbon world: limited travel, local food and entertainment, less consumption of non-essentials.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swebs</author><text>It cut China&amp;#x27;s emissions by 25% and will probably do the same to the rest of the world.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&amp;#x2F;environment&amp;#x2F;coronavirus-china-co2-climate-crisis-greenhouse-gas-carbon-emissions-coal-a9351436.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&amp;#x2F;environment&amp;#x2F;coronavirus-china-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>