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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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[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Plug in Batteries backup and solar panels are being quite cheap today and more interesting than a gas powered generator since you can use then even when there grid is up to lower you electricity bill.

I don't know the situation in the US but in Europe you can get the Zendure solarflow for example.

For less than 3000€ you get 5KWh batterie + 4 solar panel. The battery AND solar panels whether the grid is up or down.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's good for 2 or 3 hours in the middle of winter. Tf you doing for the other 12+ until the sun is hopefully back and the linesmen might go to work and fix the issue? If power goes out at 5 PM and sunrise isn't until 9 AM you're still kinda fucked