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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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Studies show that as energy prices rise, so do right-wing movements against green policies (wapo.st)
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This makes it important to use cheap wind, solar, and storage to cut costs as we decarbonize.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

In the mid 2000's gasoline prices rose to over $4 a gallon and the interest in alternative fuels spiked and so did commercials for energy companies on cable news channels. I don't know where there's a ConocoPhilips but I saw their commercial a thousand times where grandpa takes his grandson fly fishing and they release the trout they caught. Same with the Areva commercial with the catchy pop song and cute animated windmill graphics https://youtu.be/k3_hLTKiIZE?si=Rl7Q1nFfKTgZABvy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Similarly during the energy crisis, there was suddenly a surge of interest in alternatives to fossils.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

pay subsidies directly to the end consumer, call it "green energy rebate" or something on the bill so dumb people will like it. solving climate change is literally cheaper than not doing it so we have some slack to pay off dumb people

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

This was an interesting side effect to discover about climate change. As the need for change increases, conservatives gain more power.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Big fossil fuel spending a lot to defend their profits. Good news is that once they are broken, they loose influence.