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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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Newsom's budget includes $200 million to make up for Trump's canceled EV rebates, among other climate items (www.latimes.com)
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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's because California land is locked up by either entrenched farm families or corporations so building any new infrastructure means buying extremely overpriced land from people who don't want to sell it. Now you know why all budgets for CA rail explode: owners are jacking up the price of empty land to soak up as many billions as can be offered for the entire project. Farmers are greedy by nature and try to extract as much as they can from everything and everyone, including government budgets.

The only solution for now is to use existing infrastructure until the land can be sold for fair market value or imminent domain. And imminent domain would ruin a political career in the state with fuel for the right wing propaganda machine to smear nationwide.

[–] FreeLikeGNU@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Sure would be nice to convert a lane of each side of those 4 lane freeways to a railway? Seems like there is already lots of transportation allocated land right along major commute ways.