GLASGOW — For more than two decades, promoters and purveyors of nuclear energy felt shunned at UN climate change conferences. But as the climate crisis deepens and the need to transition away from fossil fuels becomes urgent, attitudes may be shifting. “Nuclear energy is part of the solution to global warming, there’s no way around it,” said Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in an interview. “The winds are changing.”To have even a 50/50 chance of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — the threshold for dangerous tipping points that could trigger runaway warming — global greenhouse emissions must be slashed by almost half within a decade, scientists say. “Nuclear energy goes on and on for the entire year, it never stops,” he said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 07, 2021 07:15 UTC