Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 5 - Summary: associated gas becomes the new crown is no change in accordance with the historical responsibility of developed countries have gas
Summary: The new crown is not related to the climate change.
Recently, sea foreign media body, citing a report by the British, American and German researchers a team wrote that climate change can contribute to carry pathogens bats closer contact with humans, and therefore between climate change and the new crown epidemic or Indirect relationship, and said that China is the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases
Foreign media There is no basis for the "indirect correlation"
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
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 and American researchers have not been verified, especially the source of the new crown virus has not yet been determined, so it is impossible to draw conclusions about climate change.
Kate Jones, professor of ecology at University College London, said that virus spillover is a complex process that not only involves ecological problems, but also relates to human exposure to viruses and the vulnerability of human beings to the virus
Yuming Guo, a 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.
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 change in the number of Siberian brown bears.
Historical responsibility cannot be shirk
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, accompanied by the industrialization of human society, first appeared in England in the second half of the 18th century
An article on "Fact Checking" published on the Deutsche Welle website not long ago stated 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 UK "see the world with data" Combining the data from the website, in 2019, the per capita carbon dioxide emissions in the U.
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.
Guo Yuming said that in terms of climate change, we must consider history and reality
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
Focus on the new crown pneumonia epidemic
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