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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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Germany’s climate U-turn is the worst possible response to the oil shock | Prices at the pump have leapt since the start of the conflict – but clinging to fossil fuels will only prolong the pain (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I searched for info and there seems to be a clear trend according to https://www.iea.org/countries/germany/energy-mix which fossil is going down, nuclear having gone to 0, total energy imports going down, renawables going up.
Do you say such a transformation can be done over night?
Looking at the USA in comparison I come to the conclusion that a lot of countries are on the right path.

[–] dracc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Your electrical production went from >5 million TJ in 2000 to ~3 million TJ in 2024. You seem to be relying on everyone else producing at times with no wind and no sun. Like cold winter nights when everyone else needs their power too. 70-80 Euro cents per kWh was unheard of just 5 years ago. It's not even uncommon where I live now that you've removed what dependability your grid had.

[–] zergtoshi@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

https://www.iea.org/countries/germany/electricity shows a different picture regarding electrical production.
Where's your source?
Btw. you can stop addressing/blaming me; you have no idea where I reside.

[–] dracc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

My bad. I mixed up "energy" with "electricity", which is not the same thing. Was looking at the domestic energy production graph (second line graph on mobile at least) at https://www.iea.org/countries/germany/energy-mix .

Edit: Your source states that Germany is importing 81% more electricity "now" (2024) than in the year 2000. Still "just" 5.8% net import, but seems (to me) as if my point still stands even if the numbers were the wrong ones.