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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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U.S. electricity demand is set to explode. That will make it harder to cut climate pollution (www.npr.org)
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January 17, 20254:01 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
By Michael Copley

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[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

However, even without follies like crypto or overhyped tools like AI... there still is an electricity demand boom coming. All those vehicles need to be charged. Every country is predicting a rise in electricity consumption.

The expansion of renewable production and storage just needs to outpace the expansion of demand.

And that... that's a field where most conservatives lack any merit - they might ride with the hype or skip the ride on other topics, but sadly appear to be hell bent against renewables. Sadly, the expectation for a conservative politician lately seems to be: if there's a fossil fuel lobby anywhere nearby, the guy is expected to be found in their pocket.