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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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Germany got 60% of its electricity from renewables in 2024, and two thirds are planning to get home solar, meaning it is on track for its goal to be a 100% renewables nation within 10 years. (www.euronews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Nuclear, however they keep having problems with it because it's so phenomenally expensive in comparison to renewables (they often buy from Germany in times of overproduction), too hot weather, not enough water… and then there's the problem to get enough refined fuel rods, since the biggest seller of those is indeed Russia.

The 2023' numbers of Germany were indeed awful (worsened by those LNG terminals and other emergency measures due to Russia's invasion in Ukraine), it gets better quickly though. The Green Party is doing its thing; we just have to hope the next, probably far-right government doesn't undo all of this progress like we see in other countries.