> The researchers say while the decarbonisation benefits of switching from gas to heat pumps are widely discussed
I'm sorry what ?
This could only happen if heat pumps are not well managed and release highly climate heating gases. But then, what about the climate impact of gaz fields and methane releases ?
Press release:
https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2025/research/po...
The actual paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.4c13276
In PDF: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.4c13276?downloa...
> The researchers say while the decarbonisation benefits of switching from gas to heat pumps are widely discussed
I'm sorry what ?
This could only happen if heat pumps are not well managed and release highly climate heating gases. But then, what about the climate impact of gaz fields and methane releases ?
Have you misread that paragraph? It's saying that heat pumps are popularly known not to release such gases.