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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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Her Retirement Home Said ‘No’ to Solar Panels. She Got It to Buy 1,344. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] karpintero@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great story, kudos to her. Goes to show how one person can make an impact in their small part of the world with some passion and grit.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 year ago

The key thing was that she didn't work alone; she organized a group to keep on pushing:

She formed a solar committee and began trying to work on management, without much success. “They said, ‘We looked into it when we built the community, and it wasn’t feasible,’” she recalled. “I said, ‘The technology has changed a lot since then.’”

Groups calling for action tend to have a lot more power to get things done.