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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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Getting Off Gas, Block by Block | Trying to electrify a home can be hard. What if we instead focused on liberating entire neighborhoods from their reliance on methane gas? (www.sierraclub.org)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I refuse to ditch natural gas so long as I have to pay a time of use electric rate to PG&E.

They’ve captured their regulators and the rates are out of control.

Every couple years there’s a surcharge to cover the failing infrastructure that’s supposed to be covered by their regulated rates, but they never fix shit and give bonuses to the execs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'd love to get rid of PG&E and have a publicly-owned utility instead, which doesn't charge the @#$@#% markup the PG&E gets to in order to pay an ever-increasing dividend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

TOU isn't the issue, it's just the rates themselves that are out of control. The reality is electricity costs vary dramatically throughout the day and seasonally, so reflecting that in customer prices is a natural way to shift some load.