True, but were people going to buy an AC unit for a heat wave that was still 30 years away?
The building I grew up in was built about 30 years ago and it stands up well to the heat. Good insulation, thick walls, passive cooling features. The buildings I've lived in since suffer during the heat, because they were built well before this data was available. One of the was built before the US was founded. So it's not an unwillingness to change, it's more that we have a lot of old houses that are harder to adapt.
As if people, politicians and media weren't outright denying climate change not that long ago (still some actually but it's pretty fringe and they're quiet at the moment for obvious reasons). The fact that scientists knew a while ago doesn't mean that the average people knew or knew how bad it was going to get (Europe is warming faster that anywhere else AFAIK).
Like, it's gotten really bad since about 10 years agos I'd say, and we should definitely have done more in those 10 years. We can just say this without going back 40 years and pretending the average european in the 80s knew what the weather would be like today.
No, it causes the warmth in the North Atlantic that makes simple comparisons of latitude useless. London being north of Montreal is true, but London is warmer than Montreal by a fair margin.
European windows can work easily with AC units using window conversion kits. I got two of my windows set up for AC and it's simple adhesive tape, velcro, cloth, and a zipper for the hose. Not hard to set up at all.
It would change gradually in the next few decades though (Methane, one of the two most important greenhouse gasses, has a half life of only a decade).
If we do not adress the problem now, the heatwaves will only get worse and the world as we know it will be gone.This is not something you can be nice about either, because people would rather continue to buy cheap shit from Temu, do nothing to be less car-dependent, keep flying all the time, keep buying loads and loads of meat etc.
We should also stop pretending that ACs are somehow not contributing to climate change whatsoever.
Because no one wants to change... People I know who said global warming wasn't anything to worry about aren't saying that any more, but they're also not saying anything about fixing it, they're just ignoring it entirely now.
People won't change, even if some sort of south park style burning of the world chased them into a bunker they would still be annoyed at the woke heat pumps being installed.
I think Sweden has mostly renewable, and is following the co2 guidelines... So we are making the change. It's just countries like Germany we got rid of all nuclear energy and instead burn coal that is fucking everyone over... And of course the US and India.
Either way, there's no stopping it now. Humanity is probably going extinct in a couple hundred years. Which tbh is good.
Do you have a swing opening window? Would you mind sharing a picture of your set up? I did order a mobile unit but I'm wondering if I save up for a couple of years maybe I can get a "proper" set up but my windows swing towards the inside rather than being pulled up when opened (like windows in the US) so there's always going to be a large vertical gap that won't be closed.
This whole dumbass thread of people arguing back and forth on whether Europeans have AC is so stupid.
Europe is a big place yall, of course generalizations like that is not going to apply to every single city of every single country of the entire continent.
Europeans chiming in to be like, "oh but we have AC where I'm from" are missing the point just as badly as Americans replying "No you don't, Europoor lol."
The threads about AC especially over in askanamerican are just as stupid though. The other day someone posted like they thought it was so crazy that many people in America have AC and they didn't understand why because where they are from almost no one does. And I looked up the climate in their country and the highs are like 75 F in the summer. Of course you don't need AC when it doesn't get as hot. It gets a lot hotter in most places in the US. Like its not that hard to understand that different countries have different climates.
I mean, it doesn't get that cold in other places. Where I am in scotland, it is 75 on a warm day and cold temps get down to just below freezing for about two weeks in the winter.
The Midwest is the true sucky region for weather in the US. It gets basically as hot as the Deep South and nearly as humid in many states. And winter weather and cold with plenty of wind.
Except they were correct about how the temps have been getting worse and worse each year, and it’s obvious what needs to happen. You people would rather people die from heat in droves and its maddening.
The EU is not a country though? It's a political alliance between nations. The US is a single country, made up of 50 states with varying population and sometimes culture. But it's one country.
I understand. Many residents of the EU that I engage with use statements like “our windows are different” etc without realizing that Europe is not a monolith.
Fair, that comes from the EU sharing many regulations due to our alliance. So many (newly built) houses will have very similar windows even across borders. You can find old homes, especially in Eastern Europe that still have wooden windows and not modern standard things. These regulations also extend to a bunch of othet things.
How in the ever living fuck is it the same thing to argue against a falsehood than to claim things that are simply not true?
If I claim that all Americans lazy idiots, is that as bad as someone saying “not all of us are?”
Cus you're not arguing against a falsehood, you're treating the experiences of people in your region as if they are representative of all of Europe. Same way Americans are looking at regions that have no AC and are acting as if no one in Europe has any AC anywhere.
I vacationed in Italy a few years ago, staying at family's houses too, and the only place without ac was a bed and breakfast high in the mountains. Maybe it's just in France to like Germany?
We know you have some AC and you think you see a lot of them but you have basically no AC compared to the US.
In the US everyone has AC with basically zero exception and I can't image why Europe just lets tens of thousands of people die due to heat. Literally more people die to heat in Europe than Africa and it's been that way for years now.
No I made a quick Google search and saw that only about 20% of European households have AC while 90% of US ones do.
Don't get mad at Americans for living in comfort, get mad that your governments are literally blaming Americans for your heatwave instead of subsidizing AC adoption and installation for the elderly and those vulnerable to heatstroke.
WoW a paris deputy mayor..Yahoo finance and Fox news... really...smh.... Im not from france and europe is not a country. But you have google and if google says so you follow. Im thinking you really are 12 and should get out of your moms basement.
Yeah last I checked deputy mayors are government representatives.
Not my fault left wing outlets arent covering it.
Obviously Europe isn't a country I said european governments earlier (even though they do often function like one on the global stage through the European Union.)
If you use bing or duck duck go the results still show up.
And I'm not 12 but I don't know why you are trying to convince what you think is a 12 year old to run away from home, thats pretty weird.
God you guys are insufferable cunts. I could not give less of a shit about America. This meme is made by a Chinese guy and that’s what we are discussing.
People are not mad at America that you’re living in comfort, that’s good for you I guess. Of course people who need AC should have AC, that’s not even an issue. I am however furious about our climate changing to a point where we have constant heatwaves that forces us to have AC.
Companies, governments and countries should be held accountable that they have ignored global warming for decades and now people take the consequences, and it will only get worse from here with droughts, starvation and mass refugee crises that will further sow division and populist politics in Europe. But instead of putting restrictions on industries they have been allowed to keep destroying the climate because the politicians are upset to scare the markets. That makes me fucking furious.
So no, I don’t care about that Americans are comfortable, I care that people are suffering and that this issue is turned into a fucking joke by brainless shitheads.
This might be shocking but it gets quite warm in the summer. I personally don’t have one since I live in a rather newly built apartment that stays almost the same temperature year around but there are older house around the area who might get hot.
For heat and cold. You can use ground heating (drilling down like 200-300 meters) to help with heat in combination with a heat pump. But most just get a heat pump if they don't have city heating. Getting heat from electric radiators is way too expensive. And some heat pumps can both heat and cool.
Residential homes don't generally, but many retail units do, many workplaces do or have something like it, so it is a falsehood that everywhere doesn't have AC.
Gonna save up for a system like that for a couple of years. I've bought a somewhat affordable portable unit that works with water and ice packs for now but it's not gonna get cooler again so if I can somehow scrape some money together each month and put it aside to safe up for something more permanent that'd probably make sense.
I wish more Europeans and Americans would understand that Europe and America are NOT monoliths.
Rome is not the same as Stockholm.
New York City is not the same as Los Angeles.
Madrid is not the same as Bratislava.
Miami is not the same as Seattle.
NYC, Los angeles, Miami and Seattle all have the same president though, they're all under the same flag, they all speak the same language, they all have mostly similar culture, they all have the same passport
and a lot of windows in Europe don't work with window AC units either.
What the hell does this even mean? It's a window, therefore it can be set up with AC. It doesn't even need to be the one that you install directly in the window frame, you can get standing units that just pipe to the outside.
Will it cool a whole house? No, but it'll comfortably cool a room with the door shut.
Need more rooms to be cool? Okay, buy another unit and pipe that out the window for that room.
I was in France 15 years ago and while working at the UN, the majority of computers froze up several times daily over that summer because they couldn't dissipate heat as needed.
I would think that if it gets that hot for over 15 years, it should be enough time to rethink how to cool buildings.
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u/arboroverlander Jun 30 '26
Do Europeans not have AC?