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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 politicians are waiving green construction mandates designed to combat climate change which is driving conflagrations to speed reconstruction after LA fires (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

it would make more sense to allow a grace period between building a house (and letting it be occupied) and installation of solar panels/electric heating

This makes sense, It's coastal southern California, you don't really need heating /cooling . There's a reason all the rich people live there , year round you'll maybe have a couple days over 80°F and a couple below 50°F, rest is high 60s low 70s. They should be fine going without heating for a while.