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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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New York State pauses its landmark gas ban in new buildings (www.canarymedia.com)
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[–] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I guarantee you data centers are excluded from this law.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why would a data center need gas?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

To run turbines to generate electricity

[–] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Backup generators. Can’t lose a second of uptime my dude.

[–] LonelyLarynx@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Data centres usually have an excess of heat and need significant cooling, which will always be provided by electricity regardless of this law.

[–] Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And that electricity has to be a sure thing. Shit when they are doing even routine maintenance they run generators because it’s more reliable than grid power.

[–] LonelyLarynx@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

I didn't think of generation on-site with gas, but you are probably right.