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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] 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Anecdote time!

A solar farm went up in a field that was basically sitting as weeds for nearly 20 years.

Suddenly a ton of people were super concerned that it be used for literally anything else. No complaints when it was a literally stinking cesspool of rotting plants every time it rained.

Now it's a solar farm with the unused areas filled with proper drainage, pollenator habitats, and most importantly to me (besides the obvious benefits of renewables): it can't be bought by a truck manufacturing company that has put up so many lots around me, it's literally changed my localized weather, and the fucking insanely bright lights have all but demolished my ability to see stars at night.

So at least I have ONE free direction to look at.

Of course that didn't stop someone in a lifted red pickup that was flying MAGAt flags, blue line flags, Gadsden flags AND punisher flags from doing a drive by shooting all the way down one side. They somehow never caught the guy despite the VERY visible vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago

The cops never caught the cop that did a drive by shooting? No way. /s

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

lol the only clean energy that needs a ban is clean coal

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

There was opposition to a solar farm near me that ultimately still got built. I had no idea there were lots of outright bans on building wind and solar now, this is pretty alarming.