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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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The U.S. Urgently Needs a Bigger Grid. Here’s a Fast Solution. A rarely used technique to upgrade old power lines could play a big role in fixing one of the largest obstacles facing clean energy (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Won’t be any money if there isn’t any power.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

But that won't happen this quarter. So why pay for it from this quarter's budget when we can deferr it until after I my promotion. Got to keep my number good.

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

What will happen is that utilities will take about a year to file an IRP with a rate increase, have it under consideration for a year, and then when it’s invariably passed, they will subcontract the work to a corporation the utility owns (at a big markup), complete about 40% of the work, report a massive profit to their shareholders while reporting to your utility commission that they need more rate hikes, citing extenuating circumstances, the economy, the usual “please give us socialism” corporate nonsense.