For people who want news coverage of this, the are articles from the Associated Press and Reuters

You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments
12 points

More wind and solar is always awesome! I would say I hope this involves more nuclear power as well, but that just takes so long to get up and running. I still think it’s a good investment, but setting up clean energy that gives more immediate returns is also extremely helpful and could even make building nuclear in the future even easier.

permalink
report
reply
7 points

Part of the reason nuclear takes forever is because the contractors don’t have experience with building them. Bit of a catch 22

permalink
report
parent
reply

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

!climate@slrpnk.net

Create post

Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

Community stats

  • 4.7K

    Monthly active users

  • 6.7K

    Posts

  • 30K

    Comments

Community moderators