▲ 2030 ▼ For the fourth day in a row, Earth has broken or equalled its hottest average temperature record (www.abc.net.au) submitted 3 years ago by sam_uk@lemmy.world [B] to c/world@lemmy.world 308 comments fedilink hide all child comments The planet's average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.
[–] nitefox@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago (1 child) cough Italy cough permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Gray@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Gray@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent