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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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Record-high solar and wind bring the US to a clean power tipping point

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wow. With everything else going on this is a breath of fresh air. I didn't realize the scale was already that massive on green side. Probably because I live in a southern state, but I have noticed a massive amount of windmills going up. Anyway, thanks for the post! Definitely brightened my day.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Biden did a lot with the green initiative and got the ball rolling.

Let's hope theyre not undone

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Has been much cheaper for a while to use renewables, at least in the rest of the world

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

STOP THE WOKE ENERGY NOW!!!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Less bird killing fans, more green coal!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I hear screams of angry texas

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I know Texas sucks donkey cocks in a lot of ways, but almost 30% of our power comes from wind turbines. Of course they didn't bother winterizing any of that infrastructure so wind = bad. Our fucking Fred Flintstone governor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

They just made renewables harder to get too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Right? Hold off on the announcements for a few years at least

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Very good to see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago