Fox news reports that Xi ordered pres to further reduce oil production in the US and more purchase of China's green products such as heat pumps. "Pres" is using war powers act from the 50s to do so. Seeing the video it's so obvious Xi is running our country. They cleared streets of homeless in SF for his visit. Since heat pumps don't work well in very cold weather, what steps will you take to protect your investment from cold tenants leaving to go south? --173.61.xxx.xxx

I couldn’t make it past “Fox News reports”. --172.58.xxx.xxx

Better, I think, to figure out ways to make heat where they are. Maybe wood? Maybe more insulation? Clever determined people will find a way. --75.7.xx.xx

On my gardening forums everyone is in a tizzy because we have all been changed to warmer growing zones, even though our growing conditions haven't actually changed and very likely we can not grow the plants that need that warmer weather that we are now listed as having and don't --76.178.xxx.xxx

Oregon, saw that USDA map. It is including higher temperatures from Solar Maximum which is five years long before it returns to cooler temps of Solar Minimum. When finding "averages" it's good to not include the "outliers" the years of extreme temps especially since they go away again for five years. I think the USDA had got onto the global warming bandwagon and that is very disturbing. They used thirty years of data but 1991, 2001, 2012 and this year 2023, are all Solar Max years with higher temps. So the lower Minimum years are '96, 2006, 2017 so they are using four hot Max years and three minumum temp years but the next Minimum years will be in 2026. Obvious attempt to skew the data and promote global warming. Cooler years are spotless, no sunspot years and you can see that left side of screen at Spaceweather dot com. Dirty tricks. --173.61.xxx.xxx

Alarming. Pay attention. Vote Wisely. --172.59.xxx.xx

Plenty, two judges just determined that vote fraud is not conspiracy theory as it happened in their jurisdictions. Massachusetts and Georgia have cases pending where individuals were caught. Also the head of voting machine company ESS was quoted as saying that someone, government manipulated their machines. We are not actually voting in many places. --173.61.xxx.xxx

There are two types of heat pumps one that depend on outside air and the other are geothermal where the ground remains a constant temperature of 10 degrees Celsius all year round where the most efficient system but very expensive to install. Here there is carbon tax on oil, gasoline and natural gas where it is causing energy poverty to those on fixed incomes. It far more cost effective to spray foam walls, ceilings along venting roof rafters where isolate attic from colder and warmer temperatures then the attic is the same as room temperature below. In the meantime going to continue with two can DIY spray foam kits where first removing the garbage moldy fiberglass insulation the ceilings are air tight. Tonight not going to use 96.1 two stage high efficiency gas furnace where put wood into EPA rated high efficiency wood stove where the house will be warm tonight where the outside temperature will drop to 0 degrees Celsius or 32 F imperial measurement. If heat transfer in walls and ceiling is minimized or reduce to zero then no need for heating or cooling system. Should be at a high of 27 degrees Celsius where in the late morning will drop to room temperature of 20 degrees Celsius as the output of a wood stove can not regulated like a furnace or boiler. How is the environment being saved if using gas turbines power generation or coal fired power generation for power. --207.236.xxx.xxx