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America Needs To Install A Lot More Heat Pumps
(www.distilled.earth)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
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:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
When I installed new equipment, I installed a heat pump instead of an A/C as a future proofing move. The furnace I installed is 98% efficient the heat pump is a 9.7 HSPF unit. With the current prices of gas and electricity it will never be cheaper to run the heat pump. I knew that going in, but decided a dual fuel setup was worth a little additional cost in case fuel prices change or I install solar. That was before the current incentives, I'm not sure what they have done to the pricing. With the previous federal incentives and local incentives I only paid a few hundred dollars over a comparable A/C unit.