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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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The disaster no major U.S. city is prepared for — a combined power outage with a heat wave (wapo.st)
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[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 1 month ago

With the current economic model I suspect that to be unaffordable by most of the world governments. The cost of ownership, the initial demand on production, temporary workers, etc.

It may be more realistic to retrofit existing infrastructure such as vacant office buildings into a space capable of comfortably providing for people that rely on electricity to survive.