Escalating rhetoric comes as new study shows there’s just six years left to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius at current CO2 emissions rate

Graph showing increasing use of 'climate emergency' in academic literature from 7 examples in 2008 to 96 in 2018 to 862 uses in 2002.

  • iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s no stopping this trend without nuclear energy. Renewable are great, but they can replace nuclear in 100 years. We need nuclear power now to replace greenhouse gas polluting power plants.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
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      1 year ago

      People are deploying much more renewables than nuclear because they’re cheaper for the first ~80% of decarbonization. Nuclear might get used for the last 20% if it can be done more cheaply than large amounts of storage.

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      1 year ago

      Oh yes, nuclear!

      THE fast solution for energy. It only takes like 20 years to build a plant, but what are 20 years if you talk stupid shit for “in 100 years”?