The planet's average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

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[–] 46 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

China's also building a lot of nuclear plants and what they claim will be the biggest nuclear plant in the world.

Not that it negates building coal plants, but it's not a simple issue. They're growing faster than the energy industry can keep up with.

And like others have said, the rest of the world is at fault too. Germany shut down all of its nuclear plants, which forced them to go heavy into coal. And not just any coal, but lignite which is considered the dirtiest of all types of coal.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Germany in particular pisses me off so much. No country bought into the fear mongering about nuclear energy after Fukushima as much as Germany did. Shutting down nuclear power plants in the face of climate change is so incredibly irresponsible. For all of their faults, I give a lot of credit to the US and France for not shying away from using nuclear energy.

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    Ugh, I knew a lot of other European countries overreacted to Fukushima, but I hadn't heard much about Italy specifically. Sounds like they didn't have as much nuclear energy to start with (unlike Germany), but they had big plans to increase their usage of nuclear energy to around a quarter of their energy grid until they halted it all in response to Fukushima. The Wikipedia page about it is tragic.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    And like others have said, the rest of the world is at fault too. Germany shut down all of its nuclear plants, which forced them to go heavy into coal. And not just any coal, but lignite which is considered the dirtiest of all types of coal.

    That's a weird way of spelling wind and solar

    https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&chartColumnSorting=default&interval=quarter&year=-1

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Looks like coal has increased from 2021 to 2022 as nuclear decreased.

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  • [+] -12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Nothing else happened at all in 2022 that could explain this, and it is definitely the trend. /s

    How fucking stupid do you think people are?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It was your source man. Don't get mad at me that it shows the opposite of what you claimed.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If they had nuclear... They wouldn't be falling back on coal. 🙄

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