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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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Finding space for wind farms might be easier than we thought (www.msn.com)
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[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Huh, as someone not knowledgeable about that sort of stuff I don't see any reason why you couldn't, beyond it'll block a little sun sometimes?

[–] silence7 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mostly because a bunch of ant-wind propaganda has been screaming "wind farms take up a lot of space OMG"

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lul have they never seen a turbine. I get that argument for solar but come on. I also can't fathom why normal people are so opossed to solar, it would literally save them so much money on their house.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There are "crops" that do just fine under/around solar panels to. Think flowers, herbs, and green leafy vegetables. Not the easilly machine cultivated and harvested cash-cows corporate farmers insist upon, but that technology, too, is being worked on.

Almost all the arguments against green technology revolve around "money printer go brr, how dare force us to put some money back into changing how it works when we would rather throw bodies into it and sell it off for parts as it continues churning out money?" Of course, they hate competition as well, no matter how bad they are at producing whatever it is they pretend to be selling.