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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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Heat pumps were supposed to transform the world. But it’s not going as planned. | Heat pump sales, critical to the transition to clean energy, have slowed in the U.S. and stalled in Europe. (wapo.st)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I can't afford it. Simple as.

I've gotten several quotes. It would cost me about $15,000 to install a system, and that's after incentives and rebates. I don't air condition in the summer except the bedroom, at night--it only rarely gets above 85F inside at night--and I heat with a wood stove in the winter, with a propane central heater for the relatively few days when a stove can't keep the inside of the cabin warm enough. So it would take me years to capitalize the costs. On top of that, I'd have to extensively renovate to insulate what I can in order to really see benefits from a heat pump.

Yeah, I want to. I'd love to. If I move out to northern Nevada--my dream---I will absolutely install a small solar farm and do a heat pump. But where I am, right now? Ain't feasible.