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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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Mississippi regulators to solar boosters: Sit down and be quiet (floodlightnews.org)
submitted 1 week ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/climate
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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"We ruined this place fair and square, and by God we're not about to fix it now."

-Mississippi

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

And yet they are worried about declining birth rates when there was just another study proving the link between air pollution and male infertility.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's just so weird to get so upset about solar that you have tshirts and signs made to protest. Even if I don't agree with it, I can at least understand the angle most protestors are coming from. But this? What's to get so mad about solar?

[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It doesn't seem to be what's happening here, but I've seen wooded areas clear cut for large scale solar farms before. That's completely missing the point of green energy IMO and I can see why some would oppose it.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Here in Massachusetts they’ve installed panels in all sorts of otherwise unusable space, including:

  • capped garbage dumps & transfer stations
  • Along the sides of highways
  • inside highway clover leafs