Global Warming - Leading Scientist Says'Tune-Up Your furnace & A/C'

An inefficient heating and cooling system will consume more electricity and fossil fuels. According to the EPA, something as simple as a dirty A-coil can reduce efficiency by 21%. Combine that with a dirty filter, and dirty air ducts and you have a heating and cooling system that is wasting energy unnecessarily.

Here is the article printed in Gazette Extra:


Do what you can to help reduce global warming

(Published Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:24:53 AM CST)

...Have your furnace and air conditioner tuned. Change or clean your air filters regularly so units run at maximum efficiencies.

"If each of us becomes a more efficient user of energy, there is less need to build new coal-fired power plants," UW-Madison climate researcher John J. Magnuson told Lux.

In fighting global warming, "there is no single silver bullet," Magnuson said. "Instead, there is a lot of silver buckshot."...