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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.
If your gas prices are heavily subsidized (most of the US) or your electricity prices are set to subsidize industrial users and line to pockets of monopolists (lots of the US and Europe) then it's roughly the same, maybe favouring gas by 10-50%.
If you are paying what either actually costs then the heat pump is better.