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Claude Villeneuve Le Quotidien Share Chronique / The Covid-19 pandemic had a spectacular effect on greenhouse gas emissions.In 2020, due to the restrictions imposed by world governments on international trips, cruises and generalized confinement to prevent the contagion of the virus, CO2 issues from fossil fuels have dropped by 5.4%.This decrease demonstrates the direct link between human activity and global warming.Indeed, CO2 emissions accumulate relentlessly in the atmosphere, as can be seen on the graphic of the data measured since 1958 at the Mauna Loa Observatory, in Hawaii.(1)