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The significant reduction in emissions worldwide is an opportunity to gather some interesting data that would have been difficult to estimate at other times. Wh
by mmcconnell1618 7y ago
The significant reduction in emissions worldwide is an opportunity to gather some interesting data that would have been difficult to estimate at other times. What other interesting science could be done now that might bring some positive from the pandemic?
- THE_PUN_STOPS 7y agoA tangent from science towards ethics, but if we’re lucky, this pandemic will finally be the level of impetus needed to end the trade of live exotic animals for consumption. Thousands of species spared to save our own. As a group of scientists wrote in 2007 [1]: “The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb. The possibility of the reemergence of SARS and other novel viruses from animals or laboratories and therefore the need for preparedness should not be ignored” [1]: https://cmr.asm.org/content/cmr/20/4/660.full.pdf https://cmr.asm.org/content/cmr/20/4/660.full.pdf
- lonelappde 7y agoHow does exterminating bats as vermin instead of cultivating and eating them spare them?
- THE_PUN_STOPS 7y agoI don’t get your point. Just don’t exterminate them from their natural habitat?
- alexandercrohde 7y agoMen's average sperm-count levels go down about 3% a year, and have been consistently for over 30 years. No cause is known, but pollutants are the best hypothesis. I'd love to know if we see any sort of "rebound" in the quarantine period.
- ant6n 7y agoI’m doing research on mobility, and the pandemic is screwing up my data.