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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

100% yes. There's no future for natural gas long-term, so any home being built without support for electrified kitchen appliances is doing a disservice to the consumer. It's only a matter of time before the fossil gas death spiral starts and causes those prices to absolutely blow up. And frankly, given that electrical versions of modern appliances are universally better than their natural gas counterparts both in performance and lifecycle cost with perhaps with the exception of tankless water heaters or for people living in the near arctic, you're screwing over the average consumer by failing to do the electric right when it's relatively cheap to do it right during construction.

Even today in the still-relatively-early-days, electrification will save money for most homeowners. Building a new home that cannot be electrified just because the natural gas lobby wanted it that way is stupid. We have lots of building codes that are meant to keep houses future proof and that's what this is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

tank water heaters can store energy thermally and can help dehumidify if you get the fancy new versions, so tankless isn't always the right call

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So if I am building myself a new house, I should be forced to install power for a stove in have no interest in using?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Code requires you install all kinds of outlets you may have no plan on using. Every 4' on the walls, last I checked, just because a house without proper electrical supply is unusable.

You're only whining about this oven outlet, though, so methinks you are not being entirely honest about your outrage.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I’m not outraged, more like annoyed at people trying to force others to go along with their decisions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you aren't forced to allow for future upgrades now you'll want government funding to switch in ten years when the gas gets cut off. People have short memories about this sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

If the government’s gonna force me to do something then, yeah, they should be the one paying for it