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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Random anecdote, but here in Colorado last weekend after the first preemptive electric shutdown for 1-2 days during a wind event to reduce risk of downed lines starting fires, I've heard multiple people talk about buying generators. In several cases whole home gas fired generators, and not a single person discussing battery backup/solar. I know someone with solar already that's installing a whole home gas generator, doesn't think batteries are reliable enough for "reasons". So we have folks that are being reactive, have money to spend to "fix" an issue, but still aren't connecting the dots. So unfortunately, from what I'm seeing, even after they are affected many still seem to activate the lizard brain and focus on immediate term needs. Obviously there are many conversations happening at once, but the "average person" needs policy and programs that meet them at their level and we have a long way to go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’d love to be able to install solar but I’d have to take down trees that just got big enough to be worth having a few years ago to do that and they provide more passive cooling than I’d get power generation.

Maybe when I have some fruit trees to put in and a heat pump for cooling until they get big enough, but at best I could do batteries from the grid (tho my area is largely hydro powered so that wouldn’t be too bad anyway)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'd do the same thing in your situation. Focus on what makes sense for your home/situation, keep the trees, and enjoy that hydro power :)