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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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Wind opponents spread myth about dead whales | Experts don’t buy it, but interest groups backed by fossil fuel money are spreading false information. (yaleclimateconnections.org)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would anyone be opposed to wind power in general? I can only fathom being opposed to a specific installation, not the whole concept....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Because they make money from fossil fuel electric generation. Wind and solar basically generate whenever possible once installed, which displaces fossil fuel use. So people opposed push all kinds of nonsense to keep the money flowing

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nuclear investors freaking out that maybe we won't build hundreds of plants when they invested heavily into the industry

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah yes, the investors of the... checks notes power source with the least investment? Wait, what? Surely there's much clearer suspects? Did you read the article even? It's the fossil fuel industry. It's always the fossil fuel industry.

While you argue whether one clean energy is better than the other, fossil fuels are getting trillions in subsidies from our governments.