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From ‘heat panic’ to ‘sacrificed at the altar’: Europe’s air conditioning culture wars heat up (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The day after Germany’s heat record was broken, Marc Bernhard, the construction spokesperson for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), said his party would stop people being “sacrificed on the altar” of mainstream climate ideology, such as energy efficiency ratings. “Climate hysteria is leading to more heat-related deaths due to ideological construction errors such as abstaining from air conditioning.”

That's a straw-man. Nobody is saying that air condition should not be built into hospitals and homes for old people for environmental reasons. Especially as with photovoltaics there is a very good solution to produce cheap energy in sunny weather. (Funny that AfD is working against it).

What it is about is diverting from three facts:

  • using A/C is not going to stop climate change. It will only keep temperatures inside comfortable a bit longer. It does not solve the big real problem we have. The problem to which the only real solution is decarbonization. Which AfD is working against.
  • European countries need less A/C than the US because houses are more massive, better insulated, and until now better adapted to the local climate
  • there are other adaptations, like planting trees, which have advantages depending on the circumstances.
[–] graynk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

Nobody is saying that air condition should not be built into hospitals and homes for old people for environmental reasons.

I've met that nobody. It's my colleague. Make no mistake, there are people who actually believe that "people dying" vs "increased energy consumption and/or environmental damage" is a tradeoff worth considering.

better insulated

That's part of the issue, yes. It will keep out heat for longer, but it will also keep the heat in for longer.

[–] eutampieri@feddit.it 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

“Climate change is just a word that gets trumpeted,” says Reinhard Lange, a retired electrician whose 150-year-old house sits down the road from the weather station in Coschen that provisionally broke Germany’s national heat record on Sunday. “Back when I was a child, it was also warm. It just wasn’t played up.”

Boiling frog?

[–] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Reinhard Lange can go fuck himself. I'm so sick and tired of science-denying boomer shitlords who only have 5-10 years left on this planet deciding what's best for the rest of the population.

It's literally a temperature record. This temperature has never before been achieved. No, Diesel Dieter, it wasn't this hot when you were young, you insufferable cunt.

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 24 points 2 days ago

Unwillingness to admit being wrong about climate change.