But at our current rate, the global CO₂ budget will be fully exhausted in about eight years. We don't actually know that. It's a model projection. Academic mod

But at our current rate, the global CO₂ budget will be fully exhausted in about eight years. We don't actually know that. It's a model projection. Academic models have a long history of being wrong and seemingly always in the direction of being too pessimistic, across a variety of fields. Do we need to transition away from fossil fuels? Sure. Are the models so robust and so beyond question that nuclear should be ruled out on the basis of a handful of years of construction time? No way. The science is nowhere near solid enough for that.