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Not only broke it, destroyed it: +2.2C (+4.0F). That's incredible, in a terrifying, "well, I guess this is going to happen" kind of way.
by gilbetron 7y ago
Not only broke it, destroyed it: +2.2C (+4.0F). That's incredible, in a terrifying, "well, I guess this is going to happen" kind of way.
- jandrese 7y agoTerrifying in the "this is the new normal" sort of way.
- criddell 7y agoIf every disaster contains opportunities, what are they here? The obvious thing would be investing in green technology, but what else? Are HVAC equipment producers about to see a big uptick in sales?
- sangnoir 7y agoVast swathes of land in Russia that have been frigid are becoming arable. Lots of formerly inland properties will become seafront all around the world - invest wisely!
- bodyfour 7y agoTemperate, not necessarily arable. Arable implies soil conditions, etc which most of these areas probably don't have.
- sangnoir 7y agoI meant arable: the soil (not) being frozen is one of the factors affecting arability, right? Russia has this to gain (with precipitation being possibly at risk) https://phys.org/news/2018-05-climate-arable.html https://phys.org/news/2018-05-climate-arable.html
- dmitriz 7y agoTo later become island front?
- chewz 7y agohttps://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/orthographic=30.27,48.78,1459 https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/o... Warsaw is today 27C, Minsk 21C, Smolensk 18C, Moscow 22C. So not entire Europe is baking in heatwave only the Western part. The same circulation is heating Western Europe and cooling Eastern Europe.
- ashildr 7y agoVast swathes of land in Russia are releasing gigatons of methane now. Methane has a way stronger greenhouse effect than carbondioxyde. This is really terrifying. Google ‚Methans craters‘...
- the_duke 7y agoProbably. Much of Europe hasn't really needed AC until now. It would often only have been really impactful for one or two weeks a year. Not really worth the investment. With temperatures climbing this high, and being maintained for longer periods, I recently bought my first mobile AC unit and am thinking about installing a permanent one after the summer.
- danieldk 7y agoWhere are you? Apparently there is a surge in AC sales in The Netherlands as well. Sure, we have had a few hot days now and about a month ago, but nothing that can't be handled with a good ventilator. The remaining 355 days of the year we absolutely don't need an AC. Now people have AC units installed and also turn them on when it's 30 degrees celsius outside. Given that we are nowhere near 100% renewable energy yet, it's a hell of a good way to make the problem even worse.
- stirfrykitty 7y agoSlashdot-esque post: 1. Set up AC company in Europe 2. Wait for panicked calls from sweltering people 3. Profit!!
- eisa01 7y agoAre they not buying reversible heat pumps? That’s what people buy in Norway, which helps on the much longer heating season
- user5994461 7y agoDisagreed on that. It's more of a cultural thing really. Having lived in south France, where temperature was always over 30C in summer for long period of time. There simply wasn't air conditioning in homes or offices. It's not that it isn't needed. It's just not there. If you want to change job to an office job with AC, good luck finding one. You're just burning down in summer? being completely unproductive at work? People just live with it. Dress in short tshirt and drink a lot of water. There can be 50 employees asking to get a AC unit for the floor, doesn't matter, management is just nope. It's evolving slowly as new office constructions have air conditioning and it's being retrofitted to some places.
- Sharlin 7y agoEven in Finland where we’ve been mostly spared from >30° weather, portable AC units have been sold out for a couple of months now.
- laobagua 7y agoIt's kind of ironic that when the Earth gets hot we turn on more devices that heat up the Earth (via CO2 emissions). I don't have AC at home in the Bay Area -- when it gets hot I just go to a public air-conditioned space for the day.
- jMyles 7y ago> It's kind of ironic that when the Earth gets hot we turn on more devices that heat up the Earth (via CO2 emissions). It's not exactly irony; these vicious feedback loops are a big part of what has gotten us into this mess.
- criddell 7y agoIt's part of the reason I think rooftop solar panels are an interesting idea. They generate power at exactly the time when it's needed for cooling.
- erdewit 7y agoWhen it's so hot like now, the efficiency of solar panels goes down and they produce about 20% less.
- maximente 7y agoi imagine real estate in Greenland is p. cheap - barley was grown there at one point, so there's that
- blablabla123 7y agoGreen HVAC equipment ;)
- starbugs 7y agoAside from the direct opportunities making the problem even worse (sell millions of ACs) presented here already: This is a serious opportunity for mankind to learn from its mistakes and become a sustainable society. Let's hope it doesn't take more than 100 years and half the population to do so.
- kiliantics 7y agoMy hope is that this is taken as an opportunity to change the logic of our society's organisation away from endless growth and to end the calous, brutal exploitation of people and resources for the singular goal of profit.