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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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UK power stations burnt wood from old forest areas, Drax emails show | Internal review acknowledges pellets ‘highly likely’ to have come from ecologically important areas in Canada (www.ft.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Cutting down trees. To be processed into pellets (requiring electricity and water). To put on a diesel powered cargo ship to send across the Atlantic Ocean. To be burned.

This is the stupidest “green” energy plan I have ever heard of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

That's what's happening if you're hellbent on using old technology.

All these schemes, ethanol, bio diesel, pellets, biogas, etc are just ways to continue using old assets in the hopes that somehow they're still viable.

As a stopgap solution they would be fine, but for some reason lobbyists managed to convince politicians that growing corn to produce diesel and then burn that in ICE cars is better than a battery, so now we keep driving ICE cars. Great.