The summer temperatures will continue to get hotter. It's the winter temperatures that will get colder. Both require energy use to keep housing liveable. Which, unless we dramatically transition our energy generation to renewables, will just continue exacerbating the climate problem.
Ugh.
They chose to ignore the consequences because shouting "nein danke" at everything makes you look principled.
"Nuclear energy is being outcompeted by renewable energy sources and is an inefficient solution to carbon emissions, according to the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report (WNISR) published on 24 September 2019."
"The report estimates that the average construction time for reactors worldwide was ten years, significantly longer than the World Nuclear Association’s estimated construction time of between five and eight years. Nuclear reactors are also slow to start and a number have closed, with nine units closing over 2018 and a further five units expected to close over 2019."
"The report also states that nuclear power is more expensive than renewables. Nuclear energy costs around $112-189 per megawatt hour (MWh) compared to $26-56MWh for onshore wind and $36-44MWh for solar power. Levelised cost estimates for solar and wind also dropped by 88% and 69% respectively, while they increased by 23% for nuclear power."
https://www.power-technology.com/news/nuclear-energy-report-...
So if we suddenly start building 180+ nuclear plants this year (what the article says we need for the whole planet), they're unlikely to start providing any emission reduction at all until after 2030. That's part of the reason why they said in the article that they're too slow.
That doesn't mean they can't be part of the solution, especially planning for 2040 and beyond, and Bill Gates mentioned in his book that he is investing some serious money into some next-gen nuclear power plants that is supposed to address some of their current issues, but they can't be the primary solution anymore (maybe they could have been 10-20 years ago if we built a lot more of them).
The building I live in in London was built in the mid 1800’s there are many others like it, Edwardian buildings aren’t much better not to mention the 50’s - 70’s council built blocks.
Rebuilding buildings would also have a major carbon footprint not to mention cost.
of course, this may never happen, since it'd be perceived by the establishment as political suicide - but they don't care, since they won't live long enough to witness the real suicide, which happens slowly, then all at once (when it's too late).
This makes many assumption that do not fit very large parts of the inhabited earth.
What's happened to sympathy/empathy these days?
And, since you can't warm "by breeze", you now have the worlds population squished into two very small bands around the earth.
Here's a neat "population vs latitude" graph: https://engaging-data.com/population-latitude-longitude/
If/when things get dire, there's always underground (moving into new digs). Those cities in Turkey are getting easier to understand.