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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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[–] BackupRainDancer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can go to googles sunroof project website to see how much footage/mwh a fully sunned home in your area would get. It's been a while but I think they give you kwh, from there depending on the (if in us) eGrid you'd be on you'd be able to see if there would be a meaningful difference in a) energy you'd be saving or generating and b) how bad your average grid is.

The Epa also publishes a tool called power profiler that can help you.

Edit to include that I believe the EPA even has a GitHub that might have how bad each energy plant is? Not sure