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‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
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What people are not getting is that we can’t turn this back – the CO2 to a large part remains in the air for thousands of years,” said Rahmstorf. “Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”

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the CO2 to a large part remains in the air for thousands of years

A few years ago I was thinking about this debate around nuclear power.

While nuclear power plants create a lot of electricity without carbon, they have this super scary spent fuel nuclear waste that lasts thousands of years!

And then, all of a sudden I saw it: *CO2 dumped in the atmosphere lasts 10X longer than nuclear waste . *

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