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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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[-] CeeBee@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Gray@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] nitefox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Gray@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

No country bought into the fear mongering about nuclear energy after Fukushima as much as Germany did.

Germany bought the fear mongering BEFORE Chernobyl (which of course accelerated it). Also their "green" party was founded on the goal of getting rid of nuclear in the 90s. Real Engineering on Youtube has a great video on this whole thing

[-] schroedingershat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

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

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