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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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I'll note that the current text of the bill doesn't just get rid of tax credits; it actively imposes taxes on wind and solar to negate their cost advantage over fossil fuels.

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[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

Fucking slobs going to get us killed.

The economics are in. Fossil Fuels are more expensive than solar/wind now. Even ignoring the insane future externalized costs of putting more CO2 in the air, it is more expensive to maintain coal plants than it is to replace it with solar/wind.

This is corruption of our politics by fossil fuel industry.

These bastards need to get out of the fucking way. They are sticking our future kids with massive bills to make us pay more than market price for all sorts of equipment.

I wonder where that tax money's gonna go. I know it ain't going back in my pocket, the theives