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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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California approves an unprecedented plan to protect Joshua trees from climate change threats (www.latimes.com)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They have 12% of the US population and only contribute 6% of total US carbon emissions.

They buy 30% of their electricity from outside the state, primarily Texas.

When they stop doing that, we can talk about their real emissions.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 6 points 3 days ago

They buy 30% of their electricity from outside the state, primarily Texas.

Of the electricity California imports, 41,838 GWh is from nuclear or renewable resources, while 13,306 GWh is from fossil fuel sources. 10,373 is purchased on the open market and untraceable to a specific source. This means 64% of the energy imports you're saying are problematic are directly traceable to nuclear or renewable sources.

None of this changes the fact that they use less energy per capita than all but two states, and by a significant margin vs the median.

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/california-electricity-data/2023-total-system-electric-generation

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

You can still calculate the real emissions based on the generation mix from the imports though.