In 2018 our society released 37.1 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere, this has been shown to exacerbate climate change. CO2 isn’t a greenhouse gas with a large global warming potential but the sheer volume of it is becoming a problem with around 25% more of it in our planet’s atmosphere than there was in pre-industrial times and it is getting worse not better.
Water and area heating and cooling accounts for over a third of global carbon dioxide emissions so any reduction would certainly be a help. Heat pumps are four times as efficient as fossil fuels for heat management so their use could pull back emission levels to the early 1990s
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