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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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Hochul Administration Stalls on All-Electric Building Code | NY State has yet to publish a building code update, promised in December, should phase out fossil fuel appliances in new homes (nysfocus.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

There's been a fair bit of pushback on this, as expected. I'm in western NY and have an all-electric house. It works great and has been cheaper than gas.

Between her caving on Adams and this, I'm going to really let her outreach manager's team leader's third intern's bot have it in my next letter.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Do call her office though. They do pay some attention to how peeved constituents are