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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.

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Australia proves that solar can be easy and widely adopted (www.volts.wtf)
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Australia has high rates of adoption for rooftop solar. The interconnection is easy and permitting happens over night. And best of all, none of the fears associated with wide spread solar have materialized into real world problems.

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[โ€“] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yikes, that sounds like a mess. In WA we have one fully connected grid (SWIS) and one provider (synergy). Western Power used to be the provider, but now they only run the power stations and maintain the infra. There are multiple electrical generation companies that run power stations, but the customer doesn't deal directly with them. They all sell power to synergy, who sells it to the customer, and synergy pays western Power to maintain the SWIS.

There are some pockets that live outside the SWIS with a different arrangement but they are a tiny minority.

Synergy is owned by the state govt, so there is a monopoly, but it's more benevolent to the customer, and hostile to the generators. They do what they can to keep prices low. But the infra is aging, and western Power spends increasingly more each year to maintain it and replace wooden poles. Western Power is also wholly owned by the state govt.

[โ€“] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Govt owns 49.6% of Ausgrid here lol, I think the rest is mostly AusSuper