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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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What happens when solar panels die? (www.engadget.com)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

balked at the length, but could not stop reading. a worthwhile 5 minutes of your life.

tl;dr "nothing good". but while we still have no good solution for existing panels, manufacturing improvements that are ready for commercialization now could allow panels made in the next 2 years to be easily and profitability recycled at eol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While at the same time those in the US really need to push for better legislature onwhat to do with the incoming solar panels, as we do not have much in place currently.

Or it just all ends up in the landfills like most other things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

and this is exactly where a restorative tax on fossil companies should go. tax the living hell out of them.