Not to mention, it's Nov. 6th and I just turned my AC back on yesterday because it was almost 80 outside.
Remark: "It is warmer than it should be at this point in time, so I have taken unexpected and uncommon action to cool my home."
Replies: "yeah but what about", "here's how you're wrong", "this is all your fault", etc.
Real shame.
I anticipated all of those lol. Just sharing my anecdotal experience.
I am at altitude in Colorado and I didn't use the AC once this summer. So?
Exactly. So? So what? You're the one saying a fact without context. You tell us. Is that normal? Is that what you'd expect? Is it unusual?
Which was my point. It doesn’t mean anything.
Weather is not the same thing as climate.
Climate change changes your local weather. We had a miserable time in the PNW this summer, across the whole region.
People turning on AC when it's "almost 80" is part of the problem.
So if people only turned on their AC past 80, that would significantly solve the problem?
If not, why are you mentioning it?
80°F = 26.6°C. I usually wait until 30°C (86°F), perhaps 28°C (82.4°F) if the humidity is too high.
Depends entirely how that electricity is generated.
To me, it seems like people writing these articles should be careful to avoid inaccuracies and overstatements in their writing. The very first sentence of the article includes the phrase “on track to be”.
What is inaccurate or overstated in that sentence?
If they were really serious they would do their climate conference over Zoom.
That's a good point. To me too it looks kinda hypocritical to go to the kind of expense with flights, hotels, security, good etc. It seems as if for most people going there is more of a photo-op than anything else. I don't expect much will come out of this summit.
Hey if it improves communication even a little bit, having all the brains in one room and hashing it out seems like a perfect use of carbon. Compare that to all the for-profit corporate uses.