The most frustrating thing with heat pumps is how little help the government are providing. They will cost a fortune to the consumer, especially in houses that need existing heating systems altered to be compatible.
We should probably stop subdising fossil fuel companies so much by this arguement. I'd rather my tax pounds went to subsidising heat pumps than fossil fuels.
The UK government has given £20bn more in support to fossil fuel producers than those of renewables since 2015, the Guardian can reveal.
From 2020 to 2021 they received an extra £1bn support from the government compared with 2020, a 10.7% increase. For renewable energy in the same year, total support for projects increased by just £1m, or 0.01%.
All of the climate reports for the uk suggest we will need air conditioning 10 times more and our heating will be needed less. So the future should absolutely be in air conditioning and two way heat pump systems
Hard to know what to say to these stories anymore. But one idea is:
One thing you can do is write to your MP or representative.
Here is a letter template to write to your MP if you are in the uk - you could also use the template in the US or elsewhere in the world : https://www.theclimatecoalition.org/write-to-your-mp
Exxon produces less than 3% of the world's daily crude demand and in May its shareholders overwhelmingly rejected calls for stronger measures to mitigate climate change.
I have the same large Dutch oven and we use that and a cast iron pan for basically everything. I envy your le creuset collection we barely have space for the Dutch oven!
Our Lady's Catholic High School Pic: Google A Preston school will have to remain shut for at least the first two days of the new academic year after it was.......
I can't imagine this is the only Lancashire school facing the RAAC issue. As far as I'd heard it was up to local authorities to carry out inspections and who knows how many schools and public buildings have actually been inspected at this point!
It's true, but also quite damning of our whole political system. I just think we're well past the point of party politics with this issue, it all needs putting aside and we need to see real change.
The film based on the French graphic novel series of the same name written by Alexis Matz Nolent.The killer is scheduled to release on November 10 by Netflix...
I think keeping it in people's minds is useful. Otherwise it's easy to get wrapped up in your day to day life. I've found that climate stories are often under reported here or categorised as another issue.
What book do you feel deserved a much better media adaptation than what it got?
I am forever bitter about Eragon…
People who work from home all the time ‘cut emissions by 54%’ against those in office (www.theguardian.com)
Gas boiler lobby trying to delay UK’s heat pump plans, leak shows (www.theguardian.com)
This article is a month old, but similar things are happening in many European countries.
Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts (www.bbc.co.uk)
Missing winter sea ice signals changes that could be a "disaster for the world", scientists say....
Exxon says world set to fail 2°C global warming cap by 2050 (www.reuters.com)
Any Le Creuset fans? (lemmy.one)
I inherited my grandmothers dutch oven (center), it’s probably 70 years old now. Still cooks up a storm!...
Fulwood school closed due to RAAC dangerous concrete (www.blogpreston.co.uk)
Our Lady's Catholic High School Pic: Google A Preston school will have to remain shut for at least the first two days of the new academic year after it was.......
Blackpool Illuminations: Sophie Ellis-Bextor flicks switch on lights (www.bbc.co.uk)
The singer says turning on the "iconic" Blackpool Illuminations was "very special"....
The UK’s newly appointed minister for net zero is facing questions over her links to a think tank funded by oil giants that called for climate protesters to be jailed. (www.opendemocracy.net)
Title (sh.itjust.works)
Coalmine approvals in Australia this year could add 150m tonnes of CO2 to atmosphere (www.theguardian.com)
New stills from David Fincher's THE KILLER (i.redd.it)
The film based on the French graphic novel series of the same name written by Alexis Matz Nolent.The killer is scheduled to release on November 10 by Netflix...
Despite clear signals that Hurricane Idalia was influenced by climate change, less than 2% of US TV news coverage made the link (www.mediamatters.org)
Mancunian weather (sh.itjust.works)