# Has anybody else given up on climate change? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 14, 2021, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-else-given-up-on-climate-change/954326 "2021-11-14T11:24:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 65
**Author:** ![am77494](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@am77494](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/am77494)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-else-given-up-on-climate-change/954326/65 "2021-11-16T22:54:35Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > I suspect we will get nuclear … We have covered this before : > [@Is nuclear energy all that bad?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nuclear-energy-all-that-bad/829173/14): > > Cite : [Accurate Quantification of Nuclear Power's Carbon Footprint](http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/gerrard1/) ”There is no industry standard for reporting the GHG emissions of a nuclear reactor. [6] Thus, it is easy for a nuclear power company to devise its own methodology for CO2 emissions that reports they are emitting few GHGs when in reality they aren’t accounting for all the CO2 that is emitted.” ” Sovacool et. al. in 2008 performed a survey of 103 different articles that quantified the GHG emission of nuclear power. They found th… Also, please remember that Uranium is not abundant - " **Uranium abundance:** At the current rate of uranium consumption with conventional reactors, the world supply of viable uranium, which is the most common nuclear fuel, will last for 80 years. Scaling consumption up to 15 TW, the viable uranium supply will last for less than 5 years." [Why nuclear power will never supply the world's energy needs](https://phys.org/news/2011-05-nuclear-power-world-energy.html) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-else-given-up-on-climate-change/954326)._