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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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California politicians are waiving green construction mandates designed to combat climate change which is driving conflagrations to speed reconstruction after LA fires (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

... Yes?

Burning natural gas releases CO2 and Methane.

Methane leaks from nat gas pipes.

Extracting nat gas via fracking also releases methane and co2 into the atmosphere...

(as well as many other toxic chemicals into the ground water, and can cause earthquakes and landslides and sinkholes)

... methane and co2 basically seep out of the ground and isn't all 100% efficiently captured for refinement... and I'm fairly sure fracking is now the main method of nat gas extraction in the US and Canada.

Every part of the extraction/production/usage cycle of natural gas releases CO2 and/or Methane, which increase global warming, which increases the chance of wildfires occuring in Cali.

I thought this was clear when I said:

Also nat gas is a fossil fuel, electrical power at least has the possibility of being generated by something that doesn't contribute to the chance of wildfires going up.