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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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[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Let's not forget how will only buy electricity back at a variable yet, sell it at a static rate and keep the profit.

Also up charging a tax on selling electricity back into the grid for "use of their equipment", which understandable i get but again c'mon.

The realistic progress needing to be done here is a battery storage solution as power needed during intense solar days is effectively 0% in California nowadays. We need to store that energy and use it during night but then it eats into PG&Es profits and we can't have that can we?

Everything done under the guise of "progress" is helping a corporation somewhere.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Sounds to me like the best way to progress at this point would be to nationalize the utility and focus it on power generation and management rather than profit.

And IMO similar could be said about many things.