Popular Post Li Bai Posted June 30 Popular Post Posted June 30 7 hours ago, CaptainQuintero said: I think a big issue also is that a lot of our houses are designed and built to keep the heat in, now the climate has changed it's the worst of both worlds, no AC and a heatbox 24/7 That's one big issue you're right. Let's think about it for a sec, I recall my grandparents' house in the Portuguese country side, the walls were 50cms hard rocks, never too hot in the summer, never too cold in the winter... And I hear "progress" all the time.... It's a joke. 5
IPORTER Posted June 30 Posted June 30 I remember that TV ad years ago in Ireland for Harp Lager...'You could fry an egg on the rocks if you had one'......Well you could easily whip up an Irish breakfast on the sidewalk of Barcelona at the moment. Smell would be nice, not sure you'd eat it though!! Unbearable on the streets. AC rules in Barcelona! 3
El Presidente Posted June 30 Author Posted June 30 ....an Urban Adaptation Expert A 2007 study found that air conditioning can cut heat-related deaths by 75%, but only about 20% of Europeans have air conditioning in their homes. In the U.S., it's about 90%. "My honest response is I don't think that should be the solution anywhere," Ine Vandecasteele, an urban adaptation expert with the European Environment Agency, told CBS News. " 1 3
chasy Posted June 30 Posted June 30 It’s like 100 degrees in the Midwest right now, crank the A/C to 68 inside. Totally comfortable. 2
Chibearsv Posted July 1 Posted July 1 7 hours ago, chasy said: It’s like 100 degrees in the Midwest right now, crank the A/C to 68 inside. Totally comfortable. At least it’s windy too, like a friggin' air fryer out here. 🥵 Its easing up a bit now, time for a cigar. 3
Ken Gargett Posted July 1 Posted July 1 On 6/29/2026 at 10:06 AM, El Presidente said: Looking back, I have no idea how we grew up in Oz without aircon. we had thunderstorms most arvos in the summer, if i recall. that helped. 1
Popular Post Ken Gargett Posted July 1 Popular Post Posted July 1 the worst i ever encountered was back in the 80s, travelling. we were driving along northern pakistan just south of the Afghan border, so a good elevation. Quetta to Peshawar to Lahore. not much humidity thank god. but we had ten days over 48C. the last day, our first in Lahore, it was horrendously humid and hit 51C. so brainless decides, as i did most cities, to walk all over it to explore. great experience but i sweated like no human has ever done. got back to base around 2 or 3 in the arvo. had been going from about 8am. during that time, i reckon i drank at least three gallons of liquids. and took not a single leak. sweat poured. at one stage - the kindness of strangers - i was down some back alley and there were a bunch of metal workers who saw me and thought this bloke needs a drink badly. these guys were the poorest of the poor but they took their scoop over to the most fetid stinking gutter you've ever seen and filled it and gave it to me. i was not all that keen but i did not want to offend. and i did not want to die of thirst so i scoffed the lot and thanked them. the next day i was perhaps not at my best, heat stroke of some kind. lay on my back at base all day. but recovered. no ill effects from the gutter. on the same trip, before this happened, we got stuck at wadi halfa in northern Sudan for a week waiting for a ferry to go up the Nile. 100F every day. we had run out of water purification tablets and had absolutely no fuel to burn to boil water. so every day, a couple of us would take containers down to the Nile and fill them with Nile water. utterly filthy. could not see through it. by this stage, i suspect the insides had seen so much that was unhealthy that this made no difference. 6 1 1
Christophe Posted July 3 Posted July 3 On 6/30/2026 at 8:56 AM, CaptainQuintero said: I think a big issue also is that a lot of our houses are designed and built to keep the heat in, now the climate has changed it's the worst of both worlds, no AC and a heatbox 24/7. That, but also the concrete jungle that is modern cities. Apartments build between as early as the late 1800's and the 1990's aren't trapping heat like modern "energy-neutral" houses. Most of them barely have insulation or double-glazed windows. But if they are surrounded by nothing but more concrete and pavement radiating heat... 💀 Now you've got a problem. Funnily enough, you go back further in time and houses were actually cool. We have a bunch of living history museums around here, and European pre-1800 houses are pretty much just ~17°C year round. Of course, you can't build a limestone or wattle and daub apartment block to house 20 families on a 250m² plot of land in the city. 💁♂️ 2
Christophe Posted July 3 Posted July 3 On 7/1/2026 at 7:20 AM, El Presidente said: ."My honest response is I don't think that should be the solution anywhere," Ine Vandecasteele, an urban adaptation expert with the European Environment Agency, told CBS News. " Their reasoning being it will drive up electricity demand. During a season when electricity is actual in over-supply due to everyone having solar panels. 💁♂️ (Which by the way, you have to pay for, so I run my AC even when I'm not home to consume the electricity I generate, lest I have to PAY for having generated more than I or the net needed). Same people that want to force us all to get a heat pump instead of gas or fuel boilers, by the way. To heat our houses on electricity during seasons when they caution of grey-outs due to electricity-supply issues, ever since they decided to sunset nuclear and sanction Russian gas imports. I'm old enough to remember they banned electrical central heating in the early 2000's (and I'm not that old). In short, now they want you to heat your house on electricity when it's scarce and expensive, but not to cool it on electricity when it's abundant and (ought-to-be) cheap. Make it make sense. 2 2
ElLoboLoco Posted July 3 Posted July 3 6 hours ago, Christophe said: Their reasoning being it will drive up electricity demand. During a season when electricity is actual in over-supply due to everyone having solar panels. 💁♂️ (Which by the way, you have to pay for, so I run my AC even when I'm not home to consume the electricity I generate, lest I have to PAY for having generated more than I or the net needed). Same people that want to force us all to get a heat pump instead of gas or fuel boilers, by the way. To heat our houses on electricity during seasons when they caution of grey-outs due to electricity-supply issues, ever since they decided to sunset nuclear and sanction Russian gas imports. I'm old enough to remember they banned electrical central heating in the early 2000's (and I'm not that old). In short, now they want you to heat your house on electricity when it's scarce and expensive, but not to cool it on electricity when it's abundant and (ought-to-be) cheap. Make it make sense. It reads like satire. Logic and reason has left the building with the governmental rule makers. 2
chasy Posted July 3 Posted July 3 7 minutes ago, ElLoboLoco said: It reads like satire. Logic and reason has left the building with the governmental rule makers. Careful, you’re gonna trigger someone… 3
Christophe Posted July 3 Posted July 3 29 minutes ago, ElLoboLoco said: It reads like satire. Logic and reason has left the building with the governmental rule makers. The other absurd thing is, that while they seem to have settled on the fact that our climate is changing in such a way that in Europe, harsh winters are more rare, while summers are getting hotter and dryer, the whole modern building code seems to be aimed at how to deal with heating your house in winter. With no attention given to as how to cool it in summer. And yet when you ask, climate change will be brought up as the very reason for as to why you're supposed to make all these expensive investments when you just want a roof over your head. The real reason is of course the geopolitics of energy-supply to Europe. Nothing more and nothing less. European fossil fuel imports for heating (gas and diesel oil) used to come, by-and-large, from Russia. 1
ElLoboLoco Posted July 3 Posted July 3 I don’t know what the answer is, ideally a nice coastal climate of 78 degrees Fahrenheit would be awesome 52 weeks a year. Hah hah 1
chasy Posted July 4 Posted July 4 4 hours ago, ElLoboLoco said: I don’t know what the answer is, ideally a nice coastal climate of 78 degrees Fahrenheit would be awesome 52 weeks a year. Hah hah The answer is to just make yourself comfortable! Cold? Crank up the heat. Hot? Dial down the A/C! Do we think MSG will be at 78°F for Taylor and Travis??? 2
ElLoboLoco Posted July 4 Posted July 4 I was trying not to upset anyone. 😂 Heck, yeah crank it up. Our upstairs AC needs recharging, it’s been only getting down to 73 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s definitely taking a toll on us. 😜
Perla Posted July 4 Posted July 4 Living in a area where wine is grown. Summers are hot, humidity is always up. Wine cellars are pretty good for storing cigars. It was quite a heat ride last week. Saturday & Sunday we had over 42 degrees and no wind. The nights were around 30 degrees so no cooling down. (Not really.) I think the really bad thing is, that there are no cooling down areas where people could go. Just for a nap. Hospitals, ER, ICU, retirement homes, schools they do not have AC .Companies with AC open up spaces for employees & families to take a break from the heat. The pic is taken from a friend of mine. 52°C degrees outside and 32.8°C degrees inside. 1 2
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