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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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Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity | They’re delivering solar power after dark in California and helping to stabilize grids in other states. The technology is expanding (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] fpslem@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, TVA (powering huge portions of the Eastern U.S.) is doubling down on fossil fuels, and isn't even putting any meaningful effort into solar. 🤦‍♂️

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/climate/tennessee-valley-authority-biden-climate.html

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The market will dictate what happens long term. Solar will continue to drop in price and most fossil fuel usage will drop as a result.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago

Especially if we start removing subsides from the from the fossil fuel industry