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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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It's worth noting that he also fired many of the staff who know how to ensure that they're actually safe, as well as the staff who would approve financing.

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[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

What makes you think todays modern world where even cigarettes are battery powered we do not invest in battery tech?

[–] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

We invest in battery tech that utilizes supply chains with slavery and child labor to make those disposable cigarette batteries - and they just go straight into the landfill.

Lithium-ion batteries are absolutely not anything to be proud of - it's a rare material and not scalable like other emergent technologies.

Lithium-ion has the potential for fire/explosion, is hazardous, and has poor cold-weather performance when compared with sodium-ion batteries.

And earlier this year and late last year in Northern California, we had two lithium battery plant fires that very likely contaminated a significant amount of our agriculture and soil.

The contaminated farmlands produce 70% of America's greens and vegetables (a.k.a. the Salad Bowl of America). We were ill-equipped to address this situation or remediate it - see Status Coup News' reporting to see how it affected the health of residents in a 50-100 mile radius.

Even if we stored it properly (away from anything it could contaminate including people), lithium-ion is simply not viable for energy storage.