The perspective CO2 leads to temperature change prevails in public, as well as in scientific perception, however, a number of studies say this isn't the case.
The nearly global acceptance of economically devastating lock downs as a mitigating response to the COVID-19 pandemic has inspired many to question the assumption humans drive changes in CO2 concentration. 1
Prompted by the observation that dramatic COVID related reductions in 2020 human CO2 emissions had zero impact on the Earth's CO2 concentration, two scientists conducted extensive statistical probability analyses and concluded temperature changes lead to CO2 changes, not the other way around. 2
