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What an utterly moronic post. At least include the time to let people very when this was. Yesterday we had 35ยฐC + across Germany during an intense heatwave which now shifted eastward. Heatwaves are linked to increasing Ozone (O3) levels which are the main driver here
"But but Nuclear energy will not solve the climate crisis long term
โ But burning coal will?
It was an irrational decision by Merkel after Fukushima. That is what German politics has become. Realpolitik died. Now its emotion and ideology.
โ But burning coal will?
It was an irrational decision by Merkel after Fukushima. That is what German politics has become. Realpolitik died. Now its emotion and ideology.
The coal plants have filters and don't cause a lot of PM2.5 or nitrogen oxide pollution. You just picked out a bad day. A few hours later has Italy covered all in red for bad air quality and most of Germany in green:
If that was the case, the air in Poland would be much worse as it is a smaller country burning more lignite.
But geez, even the fact that there was a lot more lignite in Germany when the NPPs where still around is already too much for you...
I find it interesting how the "nuclear bad because durr spill" types have never considered the constant pollution of every fossil fuel.
News flash, coal waste can spill and be toxic too! Nuclear shit doesn't magically explode. The average normie is so terrified & propagandized
1. This is a lucky guess. a) coal is a problem,but 
has renewables, too. b) is densely populated,eg 
has far more nature plus the sea
2. We should not take every map on X for the best scientific result. I googled air polution in Europe and found a lot of different maps.
has renewables, too. b) is densely populated,eg has far more nature plus the sea
2. We should not take every map on X for the best scientific result. I googled air polution in Europe and found a lot of different maps.
No, they didn't replace nuclear with coal.
Germany historically relied a lot on coal for electricity, but that has steadily declined over time. Still remains too high. And nuclear could have been pushed untile the end of its operational life.
Doesn't seem plausible to me. The Northern Rhineland region between Cologne, Aachen and Dรผsseldorf is green on this map though it has the highest density of lignite power plants while the strongest red is around Frankfurt where you won't find any carbon plant.
Somebody has to create electricity after French and Swiss nuclear power stations can't. Because rivers get too hot for cooling. Happens almost every summer, now.
And wait for it: the summer has just begun. Will be much worse in August or so.
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Literally ravaging historical old growth forests for some brown coal (worst type).
Also they basically have zero national parks and protected areas especially compared to France
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During WWI, German warships kept a stock of British coal on board for combat, because the German coal was so dirty that burning it would clog the boilers.
They didn't replace a single reactor with coal, and you're supposed to be a journalist? 
It's dubious at that time of the year and seeing that's not the case in Poland ' so probably more due to local meteorological conditions
Of all things, I am surprised that the Green (as in Nuclear) Scare is still having a decisive impact on governance.
Chernobyl created a significant political backlash against nuclear energy and many countries avoided investing in it, so Angela and many others preferred to switch to Russian gas...what followed is clearly visible.
Germany succeeded since WW2 despite the horrible management not because of it. Sometimes air quality is just linked to high traffic
I'm not a fan of nuclear but even I thought that was a reckless move at the time.
Fake News...
"Da auch die Erzeugung aus Braunkohle (-8,6 Prozent) und Steinkohle (-26,9 Prozent) weiterhin stark zurรผck ging, war der deutsche Strommix so CO2- arm wie nie zuvor."
yeah there are no other factors for air pollution. there is nothing like multi factorial causes
With Russia as our neighbors, I'd much prefer not to have any nuclear energy around thanks
Clean nuclear? Btw NL has the worst air quality. Because of unregulated extensive nitrogen emissions from the farming sector.
Could you please explain the pristine air quality in Poland and Serbia, if they both have *even worse* numbers regarding dirty coal energy production than Germany?
How does that add up if the air quality is a consequence of the energy production from coal, as you suggested?
Nuclear power is not clean. Its power to definitely poison the environment is just invisible.
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They also have twice the population of Canada in a country half the size of Texas
Yeah there is also stuff thats called traffic (looks like Germany is somehow in the middle of Europe?) and industry and an Air Quality Index (of an random time) is a mix of many pollution sources.
Until today there is no sustainable solution for nuclear waste. So how is nuclear energy clean?
Bullshit. The yellow is not at all where the coal power plants are. And anyhow pollution from car tires has certainly a higher impact on air quality.
We have burning woods right now in Germany. The electricity is covered around 70% by renewables and coal plants arenโt necessarily big polluters. For all the good takes you make, itโs always bullshit regarding nuclears with you.
Anyone who has been to London knows this image is bollocks. Londons air quality is fuucking disgusting.
Nuclear is poisonous (radioactive) for millions of years. Stay out of our affairs.
Brilliant to shut down cheap and secure energy sources to demand war projects. I see no flaw in the German government's lodge. They were left with cognitive aftereffects from COVID. 
GIF
This is just an obvious motivated lie and propaganda. Noone "replaced nuclear with coal". The truth is: Nuclear phased out and the % of coal in the energy mix declined at the same time. Properly clean sources like wind and solar make up about 50% of electricity production now.
Sit this one out. You clearly don't know anything about the history of the German energy sector and the politics behind it.
So by 2029, 40 years after the fall of The Wall, the unification will have resulted in the economy and environmental pollution of the DDR throughout Germany. Who won?
Nuclear waste is not clean. It contaminates areas for millions of years too
Still insane to me such an engineered minded country like Germany being so suicidally againist nuclear for no real reason while claiming to be so pro environment
The biggest mistake the west made was allowing Germany to continue to exist after WW2. Should have wiped out Germany and Germans
We burn less coal than ever before after shutting down the nuclear plants WTF is this tweet?
Youโre supposed to be a journalist
We burnt 69% coal day and night when 36 reactors could produce only 31% of Germany's electricity needs in the 1990s.
Yesterday we burnt only 21% coal despite having NOT A SINGLE atomic reactor on grid.
Why are you kids lying? 
