[News] Air conditioning.Have you got it?

[Music City Gull]

I'm with you on this. Having spent the last 13 years here (funny I came here in 07 as well) first in Georgia and now Houston the summers can be brutal. It's regularly over 30C May through to October and if you factor in the humidity you get heat index "feels like" temps of over 40C. It's now 3.50pm and 43C in the shade in my garden. Meanwhile inside its a balmy 26C.
Which is nice!

Living 30 of my 35 years in Atlanta, Houston-to-NO is the only area of the country I have pity on when it comes to heat and humidity. I schedule my work in Houston between November and March every year. Though I did have to go in the late summer last year but visited MinuteMaid park. One of my favorite stadiums I’ve ever been to. Where did you live while in GA?

With everything going on folks in SEC country have been in countdown mode for college football to start and bring things back to normal. Going to be interesting in our region of the country if the SEC and BIG 12 cancel the season like the PAC and BIG 10.

The quality isn’t nearly there compared to EPL and EFL but excited Nashville SC is restarting our inaugural season in Dallas tonight.

 

[seagullwedgee]

Living 30 of my 35 years in Atlanta, Houston-to-NO is the only area of the country I have pity on when it comes to heat and humidity. I schedule my work in Houston between November and March every year. Though I did have to go in the late summer last year but visited MinuteMaid park. One of my favorite stadiums I’ve ever been to. Where did you live while in GA?

With everything going on folks in SEC country have been in countdown mode for college football to start and bring things back to normal. Going to be interesting in our region of the country if the SEC and BIG 12 cancel the season like the PAC and BIG 10.

The quality isn’t nearly there compared to EPL and EFL but excited Nashville SC is restarting our inaugural season in Dallas tonight.

Very interesting, thank you.

And, the air conditioning?.....

 

[wellquickwoody]

Got one of these puppies on top of my house. Can take a 40+C day outside down to -30C indoors. A neccessity here pretty much. All run by solar power now.

 

[OzMike]

We spent the first 9 and 1/2 years here without it.
When I had it installed it was like emigrating to another country again, a must have here in the summer.
I have got 24 solar panels installed on the roof as well, so effectively it pays to run it.

 

[Music City Gull]

Very interesting, thank you.

And, the air conditioning?.....

Oops, got excited someone on here was from my neck of the woods. Yes we have air-conditioning. It’s one of the main drivers of the economic growth in the southeast. People can have relatively mild winters and be comfortable in the summer.

 

[trueblue]

Ok. Thanks for the accurate forecast for the future.

A lot of people thought the experts who warned about a pandemic were being dramatic and ignored their pleas for preparation. This might not even be the big one, considering the mortality rate is thankfully on the low side for otherwise healthy people. The next could be very different - as they’re pointing out. Again, I bet that will largely be ignored worldwide as preventative action doesn’t play well politically.

Climate change is just the same. Scientific consensus broadly is the world is on course for disaster and reaching the point of no return.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Yep pretty standard here with 12 months of solid 33-34 degree weather. We try and use the fans most of the time though and only put the AC on for a quick blast when need the boost.

 

[El Presidente]

Calling [MENTION=34942]Dr. No[/MENTION]

 

[portlock seagull]

Ok. Thanks for the accurate forecast for the future.

It’s well established that lots of people can’t mentally process the magnitude of such dire matters. Like children in an increasingly smoke filled house, they carry on playing with their toys until it’s too late. COVID has more than proved this.

 

[portlock seagull]

Well, there goes your after dinner speaking gig at 'AirCon Expo 2020'

You reckon?!

 

[Justice]

Ice and a fan cheap air con.

 

[portlock seagull]

This is though, [MENTION=663]portlock seagull[/MENTION] isn't wrong, in my view.

Many years ago I had to go to conference about the potential natural and man-made disasters that the UK could be facing in coming years.

By far and away the best speaker was a shambolic looking bloke who looked like he'd slept in a hedge and gate-crashed the event. Turns out he was a chief government advisor on global climate change. Everything he predicted we are now seeing today. (In many parts of the UK, literally today). Flash flooding caused by climate change, rising sea levels, polar melt and increased unrbanisation of flood plains. Flooding in places that have never experienced flooding before and in some places 2 or 3 times a year. Plus increased economic migration into northern Europe from sub-Saharan Africa due to war and climate change. Those that could get out would, travelling across many countries for the chance of getting across the channel to start a new life here, is what he thought may happen. Who knew? Well, him obviously.

Everything he said all those years ago is happening right now. He's probably sitting at home wondering why he wasted his breath.

His ultimate and logical doomsday scenario was increased violence and wars fought for resources - mostly access to fresh water and land capable of supporting crops. He's been right about everything else so far.

Like me he’s probably a Malthusian. When I first learnt about his theories In the 80s, it just made crystal clear sense, despite being out of fashion at the time. I’ve never wavered from my belief in, a bit like people laughing at me in the 90s when I said one day Brighton will be back because we’re a relatively big club with a massive fan base. Never wavered from that conviction either and equally proved right. Would be nice to meet all those people,again and say ‘in your FACE!’ (yes, I’d be that childish!! )

 

[BLOCK F]

Completely agree. Nice as it is, it’s counter productive and very selfish in a country like ours especially IMO. Of course, plenty people don’t see it that way. It’s just the latest in a long list of entitled ‘necessities’ we never had, nor needed, like a gas guzzling car to drop kids at a school half a mile away, or weekend flights to another country just to do some shopping or see friends and family. But it is madness. Really. The social and environmental costs for just about everything you can purchase are never factored into the price of things. Still, climate change is now irreversible and the race to the bottom won, so we might as well artificially try and stay cool at least until rising sea levels really ****s us up. Then mass starvation and violence it triggers will make air con and much else largely irrelevant anyway!

'Entitled necessities'.
Bit like fridges? And no, I haven't got air-con.

 

[nickjhs]

In reply to OP no I don't and I live in an area that although it gets cold (for Aus) hits mid 40's for a few days every year and summer often sticks around mid 30's for weeks. I use fans and keep the place closed down (curtains, blinds and doors shut) during the day, only open up when outside temp is below inside.

 

[Trufflehound]

You would die here.

Back in the 1980s I spent a hot summer in London (not the one with the zombies, the one near you). It was 35-36C most days and I got to feel the full force of lake-effect humidity rising off Lake Erie.

Didn't have airco, just a fan. I know what it feels like to die in southern Ontario...

 

[zefarelly]

nothing at home, Just Aussie management fans and blinds. I'm back in an office now which has climate control so AC to cool as well as heating and ventialation. It has mean we've all been productive this last few weeks, but at what cost I don't like to think.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Definitely getting one for the bedroom next year. You can get a small split unit for about £500 and they're not hard to install, even if it's for a couple of weeks a year it'll be worth it IMHO.

 

[portlock seagull]

'Entitled necessities'.
Bit like fridges? And no, I haven't got air-con.

If you can’t distinguish between the two and the point being made then I

 

[portlock seagull]

Definitely getting one for the bedroom next year. You can get a small split unit for about £500 and they're not hard to install, even if it's for a couple of weeks a year it'll be worth it IMHO.

Yep, keeping those global temps a risinn!

 

[portlock seagull]

nothing at home, Just Aussie management fans and blinds. I'm back in an office now which has climate control so AC to cool as well as heating and ventialation. It has mean we've all been productive this last few weeks, but at what cost I don't like to think.

Just the future of mankind