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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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Column: California strikes another blow against rooftop solar (www.latimes.com)
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[โ€“] Nighed@sffa.community 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the US, is the infrastructure provider always also your energy provider? It seemed strange that this law only applied to some suppliers?

In the UK I can go onto a comparison site and switch to a different provider with different pricing (including feedback rates)

[โ€“] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

The rules aren't the same everywhere, but in most of the US, there's one company which provides both electric generation and the infrastructure to get electricity to you. (Texas is the notable exception)