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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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Goodbye, Gas. The Future of New York City’s Pizza Is Electric. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Pizza is best baked in a wood fire oven. At home, our HVAC, washer/dryer and water heater are heat pumps. Next up, dumping the gas stove and oven and switching over to an induction stove top and speed oven. Bye-bye gas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We’ve had an induction cooktop for about a year now and love it. That old adage that a watched pot never boils went right in the trash alongside the old stove. Put a pot of cold water on and turn it all the way up and you’ve got boiling water in about a minute or two.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit, that fast? Really?

I might have to look into getting one soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it really surprised us how quickly it will heat up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What is a speed oven?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

A microwave/mini oven combo (or at least ours is). Despite the name, it actually takes quite a while to preheat.