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Canada's climate pollution rises for third straight year in 2023
(www.nationalobserver.com)
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Sorry to hijack the Canadian topic, but can someone tell me why Germany is always the butt end of nuclear energy fans with numbers like shown here? Either we're the worst of the worst or the numbers here aren't accurate. And I don't think they're so far off. So what's the matter?
Oh and Canada: wrong direction. Line go down please.
Germany seems to be doing 2 things with its energy generation: increasing renewables, and pivoting to coal while it gets off nuclear. The progress in the charts is presumably because its increasing share of renewables is outpacing its pivot to coal. People are still entitled to think the nuclear to renewables via coal transition in 2024 is dumb. Like most important things, there are many different ways to measure things, and the approach matters a lot to what the results look like. These charts aren't intended to compare pollution across countries, but to compare countries' progress on reducing emissions relative to their own 1990s baseline. So, where each country started from matters a lot to the slopes.
Believe me, many Canadians wish we weren't a petrostate, but the oil and gas industry basically control politics and the media. When we had record wildfires last year, I started seeing the word "wildfire" censored in the news in favour of "air quality issues." This year, there is very little wildfire-related news, because it's taboo to corporate interests.