Climate Change odds: Will the Earth cool down because of coronavirus?

Are you confident in your thoughts on global warming? Is it a real problem, potentially putting the future of civilization as we know it at risk, or a Chinese hoax meant to end U.S. dominance in the world? Whatever your thoughts may be, we’re going to find out eventually, so the folks at MyBookie have decided to offer odds on it.

Their bookmakers were inspired to offer the line based on a July 22 international study. If the scientists are to be believed, the earth’s temperature will is expected to raise between 4.1 and 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2.3 and 4.5 degrees Celsius.

MyBookie is betting that Covid-19 might have at least delayed that inevitable outcome, and is offering a wager that the Earth’s 2020 global temperature to be under the 2019 mark of 0.99 °C at -700. David Strauss, MyBookie’s head oddsmaker, believes that Covid-19 will have played a big role in decreasing carbon emissions, with less people driving and factories reducing production.

That’s a logical conclusion, but some experts say that the measures taken to reduce Covid-19 spread may actually make global warming worse. And even if Strauss is right, scientists have suggested that climate change is baked in already, and whatever positive changes we make in 2020 won’t show up until 2050. So if you think the earth is getting warmer already, the wagers MyBookie is offering may be your best chance at easy money, and a great way to start saving up for that houseboat you’ll need when the oceans rise.