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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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Wind turbines rarely fail. So why did Vineyard Wind's fall apart? (grist.org)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I saw the video and at some point it say something like

"no danger to animals".

This is a bold claim to make, especially since the effects of wind turbines on (migratory or not) birds and bats are vastly documented.

The "tricky" part with wind energy are other living creatures. It affects them and by default they are not able to participate in the conversation. We actively need to take them into consideration.

Though of adding a relevant link on Large-scale effects of offshore wind farms on seabirds of high conservation concern