Japan slashes climate reduction target amid nuclear shutdown

[NickB79]

5. So, you think the Japanese ARE going to build enough renewables

In the next decade to make a significant impact on their carbon emissions, despite the fact they pretty much just stated that they're going to fall far, far short of their pre-Fukushima emission goals?

Japan has been compared extensively to Germany since Fukushima as the next heavily industrialized nation to go big into wind/solar as they abandon nuclear. The ramp-up in fossil fuel consumption has repeatedly been addressed as a "temporary blip" on the way to their renewables utopia, and nothing to get our shorts in a bunch over.

I've asked more than once here on DU just how many years constitutes a "temporary blip". This press release just solidifies my fear that it will be measured in decades, not just years, seeing how far off they'll be on their carbon goals.