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the slow art of arguing with physics until your toes forgive you
means The process of making something warmer, especially the system or act of keeping a building or room at a comfortable temperature.
from From the verb "heat," which goes back to Old English "hǣtan," meaning to make hot — itself rooted in "hāt," the ancestor of our "hot." The "-ing" ending turns the act of warming into a thing you can name, pay bills for, and quietly resent in winter. The whole family is Germanic, with cousins like Dutch "heet" and German "heiß."
- romans first
- hypocaust floors heated villas 2,000 years ago
- heat pumps
- they move heat, don't make it, beating 100% efficiency
- body furnace
- a resting human radiates roughly 100 watts of warmth
- thermostat wars
- the leading cause of household diplomatic incidents
- geothermal
- iceland heats most homes with underground volcanic water
global warming — earth's average temperature increased 1.1°c since pre-industrial times, accelerating since 1975
great oxidation event — 2.4 billion years ago when cyanobacteria released oxygen, transforming earth's atmosphere
petm thermal maximum — 56 million years ago when global temperatures spiked 5-8°c in 20,000 years due to co2 release