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on WNYC now our climate story of the week which we're doing every Tuesday on the show all this year, and it's a bit of news you can use.

For context, here's an interesting if.

If all single family homes in the United States adopted heat pumps, the total annual emissions

reduction would be at least 160 million metric tons, equivalent to taking 32 million cars off the road."

That comes from rewiring America, a non-profit focused on electrifying homes.

Heat pumps have been touted as the cleaner and climate friendlier choice for home heating and cooling,

but there's a lot to know before you update your home's H-backed system.

There was a really helpful piece in the New York Times Climate Forward newsletter that lays some of this out.

It comes from our next guest, Christopher Flavell, who covers climate adaptation policy

and recently made the switch to a heat pump himself.

His story is a heat pump can cut your emissions,

but read this before you switch.

Christopher, thanks for coming on.

Welcome to WNYC.

Christopher Flavell.

Hi, can you hear me?

There you go.

Now I can hear you.

Perfect.

You want to do a little one-on-one first.

We've done Heat-P pump segments on the show before

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