What’s really crazy is that Europe will soon need most homes to have central heating. With the AMOC collapse hurrying along, Europe will actually fall off in temp soon and be more like Canada. Meanwhile the eastern USA will be flooded and very hot because the current stopped pulling hot water away from the coast.
Unfortunately not when a lot of those homes will end up getting AC to survive the ever increasing heat. Unless of course they are mostly powered by green energy, so maybe there is some hope!
We should be converting people to heat pumps, that way we can transition away from gas for heating and have both heating and cooling from green energy. This will reduce the carbon footprint overall and give people AC.
This is happening in Switzerland. So many people want to switch to heat pumps there’s a years long queue for the craftsmen’s time and the machines themselves
Heating and cooling buildings both cost immense amounts of energy, but in places where spaces are heated the global rise in temperature generally means less energy is needed for heating because it is less cold. I don’t have the experience that discussions about this favour the ones living in colder climates over the ones living in warmer climates, but if you feel this is personal let me say that you shouldn’t sit in scorching heat just because the world fucked up and shouldn’t feel bad about using an airconditioning. Spending a long time in high temperatures actually kills people. I was not in any way saying the people who right now don’t have airconditioning should not get one, just that it is better for the global temperature a lot of people don’t have one.
And a lot of homes and apartments in Europe have no AC
What’s really crazy is that Europe will soon need most homes to have central heating. With the AMOC collapse hurrying along, Europe will actually fall off in temp soon and be more like Canada. Meanwhile the eastern USA will be flooded and very hot because the current stopped pulling hot water away from the coast.
Give that like 20 years or so. Maybe less.
This is bad for the people in those homes, but good for global tempurate.
Unfortunately not when a lot of those homes will end up getting AC to survive the ever increasing heat. Unless of course they are mostly powered by green energy, so maybe there is some hope!
When it’s hot during the day there is usually sun too. Solar makes this problem less worse
We should be converting people to heat pumps, that way we can transition away from gas for heating and have both heating and cooling from green energy. This will reduce the carbon footprint overall and give people AC.
This is happening in Switzerland. So many people want to switch to heat pumps there’s a years long queue for the craftsmen’s time and the machines themselves
They’re pushed pretty hard I think but still not enough.
Green energy also requires resources though, i meant it is good for the planet they don’t have any of course it won’t be good once they get one.
I find it funny that this kind of argument just appears when people are talking about cooling but never when people are talking about heating.
Heating and cooling buildings both cost immense amounts of energy, but in places where spaces are heated the global rise in temperature generally means less energy is needed for heating because it is less cold. I don’t have the experience that discussions about this favour the ones living in colder climates over the ones living in warmer climates, but if you feel this is personal let me say that you shouldn’t sit in scorching heat just because the world fucked up and shouldn’t feel bad about using an airconditioning. Spending a long time in high temperatures actually kills people. I was not in any way saying the people who right now don’t have airconditioning should not get one, just that it is better for the global temperature a lot of people don’t have one.