Did Global Lockdown Impact On Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration?

A forage in the hedgerow of the Scripps CO2 Program for monthly and weekly in situ data, with a splash of stats for good measure

I recently learned that my local district council has signed-up to the 15-minute scheme that is rolling out across the UK. Residents are worried, and quite rightly so, for a semi rural community like ours relies heavily on private transport, there being few bus services to speak of: no car, no cake!

Any sensible transport planner would undertake surveys both before and after introduction of a new policy so they can quantify the benefits. Not so our council. Schemes they are going to design themselves will go ahead whether residents like it or not and whether they actually work or not. There’s a fair chance the knock-on effect will be increased travel and emissions as residents find ways around the road blocks and closures.

The Big Scheme

But there has been a rather big emissions reduction scheme in operation; a global scheme, in fact, and in place of flower beds and bollards placed across residential roads our respective governments have gone and locked us all away for weeks on end. Bus…