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UK orders homeowners to remove AC units during heatwave due to concerns about climate change
notthebee.com ^ | Jun 28, 2026

Posted on 06/28/2026 6:09:07 AM PDT by V_TWIN

Nice to see the UK has its priorities right.

Britons have been ordered to remove air conditioning from their homes - despite the country baking in up to 40C heat this week - under a fresh Net Zero crackdown.

Planning officials at councils have told residents to take down their cooling units over concerns about carbon dioxide emissions.

They say AC, despite the heat, should serve only as a 'last resort'.

But not enough of a "last resort" to, you know, keep you from roasting to death, apparently.

Instead, authorities ordered citizens to exhaust all other forms of avoiding heat stroke.

The crackdown comes from building regulations, which demand 'active cooling' is used only after all 'passive cooling' methods, like opening windows or running fans, have been exhausted.

Yeah, open up those windows and use fans to circulate the hot air throughout your home. That'll be more comfortable.

Enforcement has been even more stringent in London:

One Londoner received orders to 'permanently remove' two cooling units from the rear of their property, The Telegraph revealed.

Camden Council's planning inspectors determined there was 'no justification' for the equipment, ruling it breached the authority's 'cooling hierarchy' policy.

During an appeal, the homeowner was advised to open windows and balcony doors in their first-floor flat to achieve ventilation 'by natural means'.

When the resident raised security concerns in the crime-addled capital, inspectors dismissed these, arguing the risk was not 'as great as those associated with ground floor windows' and suggesting windows could remain closed overnight.

So if you live on the ground floor, you get to choose between dying of heat or letting criminal migrants break into your home to kill you.

And if you decide to live like a civilized chap and install an air conditioner?

Be prepared to face the consequences.

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KEYWORDS: airconditioning; england; liberaltruth; uk

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To: V_TWIN

This stuff, and the fact that the royals refuse to live in Buck House for a variety of reason, some I suspect unsaid, has got me to wondering...

KCIII’s state house vs the one lived in by the leader of the free world, per AI...

“Detailed Size Breakdown

The scale and footprint of both world-famous residences differ drastically:

Buckingham Palace:Square Footage: ~830,000 sq ftRooms: 775 rooms (including 52 principal bedrooms for royals/guests, 19 State Rooms, 92 offices, 188 staff bedrooms, and 78 bathrooms)
Grounds: Sits on 39 acres

The White House:Square Footage: ~55,000 sq ftRooms: 132 rooms (including 16 family/guest rooms, three kitchens, and 35 bathrooms)
Grounds: Sits on 18 acres”

Hmmmmm...


21 posted on 06/28/2026 6:42:25 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ)
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To: V_TWIN

Just leave the refrigerator door openโ€ฆ


22 posted on 06/28/2026 6:42:34 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Leaning Right
"Planning officials at councils have told residents to take down their cooling units over concerns about carbon dioxide emissions."

Try that in Texas!


23 posted on 06/28/2026 6:43:24 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: V_TWIN

Why not make any use of electricity a last resort? Are washing machines and dryers really necessary, for instance?

Just imagine the carbon savings if they really got serious about “last resort.”

The bottom line is the UK government hates its people just as our Democrat party hates us and just as the European elites (except for the “far right” ones) hate their publics.

This air conditioning fiasco is just the latest data point in the pattern.


24 posted on 06/28/2026 6:44:47 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: V_TWIN

Eat this bug to save the planet


25 posted on 06/28/2026 6:45:56 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: V_TWIN

It’s 77 degrees Fahrenheit in London according to Accuweather.

London is forecast to reach 88 degrees on the 7th.

It hit 97 degrees on the 26th with a low of 72 degrees.

If you don’t have AC, a window fan can be used to suck in or blow out cooler nighttime air for multiple nighttime household air changes.


26 posted on 06/28/2026 6:47:14 AM PDT by Brian Griffin ($324 billion -> Iran; nothing worthwhile for the USA or Israel)
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To: Brian Griffin

Convert to Islam and you can keep your air conditioner.


27 posted on 06/28/2026 6:49:13 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: Yardstick

There are people, regardless of country that if they had their way would have us all living in mud huts, eating nothing but bugs and root vegetables and using only horses for conveyance.


28 posted on 06/28/2026 6:50:24 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

Brits are overlooking one very important issue. They have bare cut most of their forests and other green foliage covered these areas with concrete, blacktop and reflective roofing creating a negative heat release coefficient in our atmosphere. During sunlit days heat buildup in these areas is so high that there is not enough dark night hours to release the daylight heat that was built up. Maybe to offset this disaster would be to replace a cut tree or several cut trees with planting 5 or more seedlings somewhere in the same vicinity with broadleaf or similar trees to dissipate a coefficient amount of absorbed heat during the night hours. There is no other way to dissipate global heat entrapment warming.


29 posted on 06/28/2026 6:51:03 AM PDT by chopperk (,)
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To: V_TWIN

More :

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4385515/posts

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30 posted on 06/28/2026 6:51:30 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ)
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To: paulcissa

Imagine the stank in a que!


31 posted on 06/28/2026 6:52:32 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: Brian Griffin

The actual temperatures involved is not really the point now is it.


32 posted on 06/28/2026 6:52:54 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: rktman

That’s from last week! ๐Ÿ˜‚


33 posted on 06/28/2026 6:53:55 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: Nateman

> All this for a stinking scam. <

Yep. Scientific data must:

1. Be reproducible. So if you record a global temperature increase of 1.2 degrees F, with the right equipment I should be able to do the same.

2. Include a calculated estimate of uncertainty (a +/- value).

โ€œClimate Changeโ€ fails both of these tests. Every trained scientist must know this. But most stay silent. Itโ€™s either out of fear or because they are profiting from the scam themselves.


34 posted on 06/28/2026 6:55:43 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: V_TWIN

You can close the windows at night if you’re worried about crime. You know, when it’s cooler.

Open during the day when it’s 40 deg C. The criminals will climb in for the shade and a glass of warm shandy.


35 posted on 06/28/2026 6:56:57 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: V_TWIN

But not enough of a “last resort” to, you know, keep you from roasting to death, apparently
= = =

How much carbon dioxide does a rotting body emit?


36 posted on 06/28/2026 6:57:55 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( My pronoun is EXIT. Generally full of /S -- Living with Havana Syndrome -infected from Main Stream)
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To: V_TWIN
"...UK orders homeowners to remove AC units during heatwave due to concerns about climate change.."

SAY WHAT?


37 posted on 06/28/2026 6:58:18 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: heartwood

40 deg C. = 104 degrees fahrenheit.

I’ve lived in Florida most of my life.......even to me that’s brutal.


38 posted on 06/28/2026 6:59:38 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

B3cause, you know, saving so eone’s life from heatstroke takes a back seat to placating scam artists who can’t prove rising heat i the fault of man, nor can they prove that rising heat is a problem when adequately prepared for it like with air conditioners for people at risk.

Man’s co2 is 0,00146% of the atmosphere... it is a shameful claim to say that out co2 is affecting global temperatures! The amount,of gaslighting over this fictitious claim is. Staggering!


39 posted on 06/28/2026 7:14:07 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana)
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To: V_TWIN

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘ Sometimes.we DO need a reminder that WE live in a halfway civilized country.

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40 posted on 06/28/2026 7:14:17 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ)
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