The Coronavirus: a reverse stress test for the environment and global warming?

[Christophe]

This may not be a climatic test but in any case it is a test for biodiversity !!

Confinement of Man: an opportunity to measure its noise impact on biodiversity

With confinement, the noise level in the city center fell by 80%, suggesting the song of birds. The opportunity to better identify them and deduce the impact of humans and their noisy activities on avian fauna.

“The noise blurs the communication between the birds. It will decrease their alertness and their attention. Noise has an impact on their health and potentially on their survival, ”according to Jérôme Sueur, eco-acoustician at the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN). The confinement of Man at the time of the Covid-19 epidemic reduced the noise level in urban areas. Wildlife, especially birds, take the opportunity to take the place freed by pedestrians and cars and to be heard. A windfall in the middle of a nesting period? Today, nothing allows us to draw this conclusion, human activity not being the only constraint to establish a nest. In addition, reminds the researcher, “even if the confinement seems very long, it represents only a small temporal window on an animal scale. The evolution of ecosystems takes place over a long time ”.

Containment, "a life-size experience"

The fact remains that this new confinement is an opportunity for researchers to increase their knowledge. It will be possible, thanks to recordings, to compare the activity of the animals, before, during and after confinement. “The sounds of nature emerge much better. This does not mean that there is an increase in bird activity. This situation is absolutely unique, it is difficult to guess what will happen. Our observations will be made a posteriori. I hope we can learn from it, ”says the researcher. Those fortunate enough to have a garden during confinement can collaborate in monitoring birds by taking part in the census program set up by the League for Birds (LPO) and the National Museum of Natural History. But city dwellers are not outdone; you can participate from your balcony!

To participate, go to https://www.oiseauxdesjardins.fr/

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[Christophe]

I would not have formulated everything like that but here is a psychological comparison Covid VS warming!

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[ABC2019]

We still feel that climate activists are revered to see everything we do for Covid-19

[Christophe]

It is not false !

I said it several days ago already: the corona definitely killed greta !!

[Paul72]

I love the painting, Christophe, can we share it somewhere?

[Ahmed]

A considerable advantage that we must recognize in covid-19, it is the suppression of the telephone harassment which stopped shortly after the beginning of the confinement ... If only "they" could forget us permanently ...

[GuyGadebois]

A considerable advantage that we must recognize in covid-19, it is the suppression of the telephone harassment which stopped shortly after the beginning of the confinement ... If only "they" could forget us permanently ...

The same goes for spam in emails.

[Christophe]

I love the painting, Christophe, can we share it somewhere?

Of course ... why not?

[Flytox]

A considerable advantage that we must recognize in covid-19, it is the suppression of the telephone harassment which stopped shortly after the beginning of the confinement ... If only "they" could forget us permanently ...

There was also an effect on the tracers. (Blocked but counted by the Privacy Badger extension) Usually there are (between 30 and 43?) Permanently on econo, but at the very beginning of the corona crisis it came down around 9 !!!!! for a few days, then it went up chaotically, at the time of writing there are 14.

[sen-no-sen]

a) The "grand plot" version!

The Covid is a "joke": a GMO virus that is not very lethal except in the fragile but highly contagious to panic as many people as possible! In short, everything is organized and under control (despite appearances): we do that to test the planet and see how it behaves!

And who would launch such an operation?

b) The version of Nature's vengeance against her oppressor (us)

Nature is all that exists, that includes us.
Revenge is a human tendency, it would be difficult to attribute such a flaw to the biosphere.
However, studies on thermodynamics teach us that structures self-organize according to a principle of self-organized criticality. That is to say, it oscillates around a critical point.
If we look at the phenomenon more closely we could compare it in a simplified way to a pendulum, any movement on one side is counterbalanced by a movement in the opposite direction, all up to the point of motionless equilibrium.
In the case of a living structure, the oscillation is maintained and varies over time and depending on events.
In the case of an industrial society, the deployment of a very large amount of energy will be sanctioned by ecological, social, cultural and economic effects, what is gained in one period, will be lost in the next.
The CO-vid 19 crisis is not a divine punishment or a vengeance of nature, because it is a very normal phenomenon, epizootics existed long before the appearance of homo sapiens.
This crisis is only one because the current model is out of balance, so we must consider this event as a process of rebalancing which is part of the system that we have erected. Understanding the phenomenon cannot be understood that through this prism, moreover, rebalancing could very well have occurred by other means, and it is moreover obvious that there will be many others *.


Terrorism, social crisis and the like are just the different symptoms.