The planet’s average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.

  • @CeeBee@lemmy.world
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    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.