Don't worry, we'll still be "way off track" in two months, and we can bang the drum again then. It is a drum that needs a lot of banging. The slowing of econo

Don't worry, we'll still be "way off track" in two months, and we can bang the drum again then. It is a drum that needs a lot of banging. The slowing of economic activity from Covid-19 is going to make it possible to test many climate and environmental models in ways climate-modelers couldn't have dreamed up six months ago. It is possible that Covid-19 will teach our present generations a lot about collective global action. The novel coronavirus is small potatoes in magnitude relative to the impact of climate change, but the timescale makes Covid-19 far more acute.