Posted on 09/02/2024 11:12:51 AM PDT by simpson96
What is it about the New York Times op-ed page and every crackpot idea under the sun.
Somehow, they always find each other.
So now we have their latest: kill your air conditioner to save the planet
The Times found some guy in Salina, Kansas, who praises going without and says he does it himself:
"Whenever people ask me how my wife and I have endured 25 Kansas summers almost entirely without air-conditioning, I like to say we do it because air-conditioning makes it too hot outside. We’re not ascetics, Luddites or misers; we just want to keep living comfortably, indoors and out.
It’s not just that air-conditioning is making our summers even hotter. (On a sweltering night in a city like Houston, the hot air that A.C. units blast out over the streets can raise outdoor temperatures up to three or four degrees.) It’s also that air-conditioning has altered the way most Americans experience heat.
Our bodies have grown so accustomed to climate-controlled indoor spaces, set at a chilly 69 degrees, that anything else can feel unbearable. And the greenhouse gases created by the roughly 90 percent of American households that own A.C. units mean that running them even in balmy temperatures is making the climate crisis worse."
Is he expecting some calamity that will leave us without air conditioning and so unadapted to that that we wouldn't be able to take it?
That's what it sounds like, what with greenie mandates from Democrats that would ensure that prices of air conditioning will soar so high there will be no air-conditioning for anyone except party elites.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Every time they get on an airplane they should demand not request that the HVAC be turned off.
Looks like the time that only showers every other day.
I find that closed cell foam insulation works very well in those conditions.
Come to Vegas and try that.
I use a $15 turbo fan. It’s noiseless, circulates the air and can be “aimed”. Haven’t had the air on in 5 years.
Remember during the Clinton Admin when, I believe it was Henry Cisneros, during a heat wave said Air conditioning was a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT for those living in government welfare housing.
Hmm. Wait until we get the obituary about Stan Cox dying of heatstroke . . . or that it’s discovered that he made it all up . . .
This fella still votes for Demoncrats!
That is likely.
Turn off that A/c, you’ll get used to the heat!
The 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago, Illinois
“The heat wave in July 1995 in Chicago was one of the worst weather-related disasters in Illinois history with over 700 deaths over a 5-day period.”
I remember huge window awnings
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Sun Setter still advertises on cable. Buy your uglifing awning today!
My grandmother lived in a house built in 1923, and survived IN NASHVILLE with 2 box fans. But she had screen doors on the front and back of the house and an understanding of how “air circulation” worked. I don’t ever remember being overly hot in her house either.
So, in short, I agree with you. They were designed differently back then.
If only there was some way of making people who want to impose these crackpot ideas on the rest of mankind, pave the way and do it themselves first, for several years.
Show us how it's done and how easy it is and how much you've benefitted from it.
Then if the idea works, you won't have to force people through legislation and regulations to do it. They voluntarily will.
Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022
...Relative to population, we estimated 56% more heat-related deaths in women than men, with higher rates in men aged 0–64 (+41%) and 65–79 (+14%) years, and in women aged 80+ years (+27%)...
Deep States everywhere waging a war on women and geezers.
Heat vulnerability: health impacts of heat on older people in urban and rural areas in Europe
Exposure to extreme heat is associated with both increased morbidity and mortality, especially in older people. Health burdens associated with heat include heat stroke, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, ischemic heart diseases, heart failure and arrhythmia, pulmonary diseases but also injuries, problems with activities of daily living, and mental disorders...
Neither Deep Statess nor their mouthpieces give a damn.
That's exactly right.
This country can have a mass exodus from northern states to southern states because of air conditioning; most people wouldn't dream of living in some parts of this country without it. (Las Vegas would be abandoned in 24 summertime hours.)
lots of folks in old Florida lived without ac too. most only lived in Florida during the winter.
Having gone through many years in some hotter climes before there WAS A/C, now in my old age I finally have had it for a few years now & would not think of doing without it unless I had no choice. I sure don’t need someone else telling me to do without it if I can afford it. It just makes no sense to suffer in 100+ degree heat if you don’t have to. Would these same people suggesting this plan say that you don’t need heat in the winter also? By that, I mean down to a certain temperature below which would endanger one’s life.
In Arizona before modern AC we had swamp coolers. And some large buildings still use cooling towers to make refrigeration.
Have never lived in homes with A/c.
Am on my 3rd home I own. NO A/C
Was raised on dairy farm & farmhouse had NO A/C.
Neither of my vehicles has A/C.
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