Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
I refuse to ditch natural gas so long as I have to pay a time of use electric rate to PG&E.
They’ve captured their regulators and the rates are out of control.
Every couple years there’s a surcharge to cover the failing infrastructure that’s supposed to be covered by their regulated rates, but they never fix shit and give bonuses to the execs.
I'd love to get rid of PG&E and have a publicly-owned utility instead, which doesn't charge the @#$@#% markup the PG&E gets to in order to pay an ever-increasing dividend.
TOU isn't the issue, it's just the rates themselves that are out of control. The reality is electricity costs vary dramatically throughout the day and seasonally, so reflecting that in customer prices is a natural way to shift some load.
IGS has a whole "community solar" line of business.