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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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California’s grid is hindering its climate goals. Can a new law fix it? (www.canarymedia.com)
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The state’s grid isn’t growing fast enough to support a surge of EVs, heat pumps and more. A new law offers a potential path forward — and could be a model for other states.

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[–] Nighed@sffa.community 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their actual solution... Just stop building new solar

Post from here earlier this week: https://slrpnk.net/post/4078995

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's about rooftop solar. The grid changes are going to enable utility-scale solar to deploy.

What's going on is that the local monopoly utilities want to capture all the profits, not that they've got some underlying objection to solar.