this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
66 points (93.4% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

5246 readers
359 users here now

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.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
silence7@slrpnk.net
66
US Homes Face Costly Retrofits for Induction Stoves, EV Chargers | New homes in the US may not be “electrical ready” after an international standards agency excluded building electrification measures (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 7 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net
61 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So if I am building myself a new house, I should be forced to install power for a stove in have no interest in using?

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you aren't forced to allow for future upgrades now you'll want government funding to switch in ten years when the gas gets cut off. People have short memories about this sort of thing.

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 1 points 7 months ago

If the government’s gonna force me to do something then, yeah, they should be the one paying for it

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Code requires you install all kinds of outlets you may have no plan on using. Every 4' on the walls, last I checked, just because a house without proper electrical supply is unusable.

You're only whining about this oven outlet, though, so methinks you are not being entirely honest about your outrage.

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 0 points 7 months ago

I’m not outraged, more like annoyed at people trying to force others to go along with their decisions