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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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End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down | UK’s 142-year history of coal-fired electricity ends as turbines at Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire stop for good (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Womble@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Waste burning at least seems to make sense, if its not burnt its only going to go into landfill and emit methane.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That's actually fine if the landfill has methane extraction systems. The methane can be used to generate electricity

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Except, the plant is sized to burn around 8x the amount of household waste produced in the city and regionally, there already are enough waste-burning plants for the current amount of household waste, making this a bet on a foreseeable race to the bottom.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Well yes, that is dumb!