If you haven’t already, consider a heat pump instead. It can do cooling and heating, generally more efficiently (in terms of energy, maybe not money depending on local gas prices) than alternatives. It’s basically the same device as an air conditioner, except it can be reversed so it can heat too.

One of the most shocking things about this climate change so far is that the summer is no longer a season to look forward to. For the last two years the skies have been white, orange or brown and the air has smelled of smoke for large stretches of the summer and on into the fall. Evidently the powers that be will do nothing unless they are made uncomfortable, and making them uncomfortable means more than polite protesting.

Good news (if you can even call it that) is that depending on how widespread the fires were you might have an easier time with wildfires this coming year

I highly recommend a few good air purifiers though, it’s been a godsend since I picked one up a few years ago

We felt it here in the states, too. We (where I live, not far from Canada) were dealing with the smoke down here most of the summer, praying for rain up there to put the fires out. We ended up spending most days looking at the air quality reports and watching which way the wind was blowing to see if we had to stay inside or not.

It fucking sucks.