Heat pumps have gotten cheaper than other home options and have gotten quieter than they were. Older heat pumps were so loud, they would have been violations of my town’s legal codes. In 2023, heat pumps are legal in my town, Edmonds Washington. Heat Pumps are Quiet A heat pump…

What I’ve Been Doing So Far Classes CRI In January 2023, I taught a course on Climate Change and Climate Protection at the Creative Retirement Institute, a part of the Edmonds College that provides continuing education. The main message of the course was that you must stop burning fossil fuels in your home and car — join…

Recently, The Atlantic Magazine and PV Magazine, USA reported on a September 28 Credit Suisse analysis of the Inflation Reduction Act (the IRA). Findings: There is no cap limiting spending on incentives for solar and wind electricity generation and for electric vehicles — the government will continue paying the incentives…

10–13 Showing What Happened in Counts of Atlantic Category 3–5 Hurricanes I need to figure out how to communicate what happened in the number of category 3, 4, and 5 hurricanes and what would happen in the future if current trends continued. (For this, I’m only using data from 1978…

10–08 No Additional Hurricanes, Maybe I’m getting together a summary of the impacts of global warming. From having seen the news over the recent decades, my guesses are that : · Temperature is rising · Atmospheric CO2 in is rising · Ocean acidity is rising · Flooding is increasing ·…

Now and then you hear about violent drug kingpins who take loving care of their children, or polluting white-collar criminals who give heavily to charity. The usual response to such news is to think, “Well, that’s weird.” And move on. That kind of thinking is an incapacitating trap. …

Reduce energy use Insulation & weatherizing Dress warmly indoors in winter Electric heating — heat pumps Avoid wasting food Bicycles — including electric bicycles Live close to services and workplaces, and walk Eat mostly plants, or eat vegetarian or vegan Passive solar heating, cooling, and hot water heating Do less…

After carbon dioxide (CO2), methane is the second most harmful greenhouse gas. Here is what has been happening in atmospheric methane: The data shown in this chart is from the U.S. federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It is methane concentrations at sea level. The most recent data available…

Here is what the U.S. federal National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tells us about how global temperatures have changed over the last 140 years: The values in the chart above are differences between global temperatures and the average of global temperatures in the 20th century. For example, if the…