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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.

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[–] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m not here to disagree with what you’re saying, but I do like to point out; I think the low number of planned charging stations currently planned for the next year and built over the last year is mostly due to the war between CCS and NACS. Now that NACS has won out I think we’re going to see a boost in planned stations again as they prepare to switch. We’ve just been in a holding pattern while trying to figure that whole thing out. I thought for sure CCS would win because Tesla wouldn’t want to give up their charger… oh well, we all win!

[–] BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

With more J-1772 chargers around we wouldn’t need as many CCS/NACS chargers except on highways for long-distance travel. Does NACS include Tesla Destination chargers? Genuinely not sure.

It’s not the range or speeds that’s the problem, it’s charger availability and reliability.