# Any positive side effects from all of this isolation?

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**Created:** [April 2, 2020, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-positive-side-effects-from-all-of-this-isolation/850851 "2020-04-02T02:22:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-positive-side-effects-from-all-of-this-isolation/850851/22 "2020-04-03T01:05:23Z")

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[Cross-posted from this thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=891790)

> [@Any good news re: COVID-19?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/142):
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> It occurred to me the other day, that climatologists are suddenly getting a wealth of date re: global climate change.  
> We’ve all seen the articles about how pollution is down over most industrial areas, due to decreased car travel, plane travel, factories closing down. This strikes me as being a great data point, however small, that climatologists will be able to use to model the effects of greenhouse gas mitigation going forward. I’d think they’d even be able to break causes down further, by comparing (say) air travel miles between last year and this, and calculating the effects of that particular activity. Lots of data means better tools for understanding.

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