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I Study Climate Change. The Data Is Telling Us Something New.
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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We're in a bad way until we have ubiquitous fusion, widely adopted nuclear, or some other non-CO~2~ emitting energy.
And those are really tall orders. We need a Manhattan + Man on Moon level effort to even begin to turn this thing around and I'm not see the urgency or leadership from people who'd need to get things rolling.