{"id":27,"date":"2025-01-30T19:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kwilcox.org\/?p=27"},"modified":"2025-01-30T19:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:10:39","slug":"planning-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kwilcox.org\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Planning for Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve been saying for quite some time now that \u201cglobal warming is about more energy in weather systems\u201d. But what does that mean from a practical perspective? In short, it means that we can expect our weather to intensify. Temperature swings will become more extreme and storms will become more intense as global average temps rise. Here then is the first of a series of posts that just might help you to prepare for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you own a standby generator? If you do, that\u2019s a great first step, but that step alone won\u2019t help you to keep warm if you lose power in the winter. There\u2019s a simple solution to this however! Your natural gas furnace only draws about 900 watts peak and that\u2019s easily handled by most backup generators. But how can you connect it safely and legally? The answer is also simple: convert it to a corded appliance. Now, when grid power is unavailable, you can unplug your furnace from the wall outlet and plug it into your backup generator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s an article that shows how to inexpensively DIY the conversion. I did ours over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RicksDIY How To Wire Your Gas Furnace To A Generator.wmv\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DZ16PKs46g0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been saying for quite some time now that \u201cglobal warming is about more energy in weather systems\u201d. But what does that mean from a practical perspective? In short, it means that we can expect our weather to intensify. Temperature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kwilcox.org\/?p=27\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-fragile-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kwilcox.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kwilcox.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kwilcox.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kwilcox.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kwilcox.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kwilcox.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kwilcox.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kwilcox.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kwilcox.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kwilcox.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}