this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
40 points (90.0% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

5246 readers
354 users here now

Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

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.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Note that this news outlet has a history of sending lawyers to harass people who post paywall-bypassing archive links. So don't do that on this post.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jadero@slrpnk.net 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

These are some of the first page results of a mojeek search in Firefox on android for the phrase "steep decline in California solar ".

I didn't find any fancy graphs, but neither did I hit a paywall, possibly because I'm likely a first time visitor to those sites.

I don't vouch for any of those sites. I just popped in to see if they had a paywall and seemed to be covering the same story.

https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/jan/26/whats-happened-since-california-cut-home-solar-pay/

https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2024/01/california-solar-demand-plummets/

https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2023-11-16/column-california-strikes-another-blow-against-rooftop-solar-boiling-point

https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/nation/california/2024/01/26/california-cut-home-solar-payments-now-demand-has-plunged-80/72366080007/

https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-3044633