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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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California is investing a half-billion dollars to decarbonize homes for low-income households (www.quittingcarbonmedia.com)
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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They may save more than that in medical costs over the coming years - gas ranges are quite bad for your lungs.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If you don't have an adequate vent (which is most us kitchens) sure.

[–] sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

Electrical ranges should be required to vent, too. The act of heating food to cooking temperatures already causes indoor air pollution, so ventilation should be required everywhere (not that would ever happen, especially retroactively to homes already built, but I can dream).

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

But my even heat! :cough cough: