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Re:We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal by BurningFrog on Sunday October 11, 2020 @01:21PM (#24747407)
If this is a reference to the "we only have 12 years to save the planet" meme, that is just a thing that went viral.

There is no science behind it.

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Re:We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal by kmonsen on Sunday October 11, 2020 @02:43PM (#24748012)
Because there is no clear line between saving and not saving. It's just degrees of badness the longer we wait. I heard there are some inflection points when it becomes warm enough for methane to escape from the tundra in Siberia.
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Re:We Need a Nuclear New Deal, Not a Green New Deal by matthewdgreen on Sunday October 11, 2020 @01:58PM (#24747677)
It is a reference to how quickly we are depleting our carbon budget to avert certain levels of warming.
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