With the formal end of World Health Organization and U.S. COVID emergency designations, let's revisit how the tragedy changed — and didn't change — global energy.
The big picture: Back in 2020, some analystspredicted global oil demand might never fully come back from COVID destruction, or would peak earlier than once believed.
But see above — the world's consumption has proven resilient (though U.S. gasoline use may never come all the way back).
Climate change made a heat wave that struck Western Europe and Northwest Africa in April at least 100 times more likely to occur, a new study finds.
Why it matters: The study, from the World Weather Attribution initiative, concludes that without human-caused warming, this heat wave would have been "almost impossible." Its findings are based on peer reviewed, published methods, but the new research has not itself been peer reviewed yet.
This is one in a string of studies to come to similar conclusions on extreme heat events.
