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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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First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled (arstechnica.com)
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NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.

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[โ€“] huginn@feddit.it 41 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Tldr: renewables are really cheap and utility partners backed out from buying the energy so it didn't make economic sense.

I can't help but feel that it would make more economic sense if we taxed the fuck out of other stable sources of energy that are killing us (coal/gas).

But it's Utah: they don't give a single shit about air quality or global warming.

[โ€“] JPAKx4 1 points 1 year ago

They'll start to care once salt lake dries up and everybody gets cancer. I've been telling my family to get out of there but they still haven't.

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