Should we embrace air conditioning despite its costs and consequences?
What’s happened to the UK’s climate consensus?
Opposition, apathy and the voters in-between
‘Like a sauna’: London tube travellers swelter in temperatures higher than legal limit for cattle
The tube cannot easily be adapted to cope with heatwaves, making conditions almost unbearable
District cooling could be the solution we need to tackle extreme heat | New Scientist
Networks of pipes carrying chilled water have proven to be an efficient way to cool hospitals and universities. Now, they are expanding into cities as heatwaves increase in the US and Europe
In Deep
The numbers are simply mind-blowing: up to £264 billion for a climate “solution” that will increase emissions. Has the government lost its mind?
On Cooling America Out
We've been the marks of our own long cons, all the way up
Ex Oil-Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson
Summer’s new normal is a hazard that’s testing Europe’s climate resilience
As people across Europe are having to acclimatise to an unprecedented heatwave, coordinated responses for tackling extreme heat need to come from the top, and there’s no time to lose.
Majority of US voters link extreme weather to climate crisis, study finds
Top Democrat says findings show public ‘way ahead of the politicians’ as Trump dismisses global heating as ‘hoax’
Announcing the NYC Urban Heat Portal: Explore, Understand, and Act on Urban Heat - BetaNYC
BetaNYC is excited to announce the launch of the NYC Urban Heat Portal! Explore it at urbanheat.nyc What is urban heat, and why does it matter? New York City, like many urban areas, faces the Urban Heat Island effect, whereby cityscapes become significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas. The growing challenge of extreme heat is
Natasha Walter: We’ve gone from climate denial to something worse – climate fatalism
The message in the western media, as global heating becomes undeniable, seems now to be that nothing can be done. That is unacceptable – especially for those in developing countries who are suffering so greatly from the crisis we created
Europe is BURNING - why are politicians not acting?
State of the Atmosphere (CONF 2026) - Brookie’s Blog
I should be cleaning the house right now but instead I'm writing about the ~Atmosphere~ again... It's been a full week since I first arrived in Vancouver, for A...
State of the Atmosphere (CONF 2026) - Brookie’s Blog
I should be cleaning the house right now but instead I'm writing about the ~Atmosphere~ again...It's been a full week since I first arrived in Vancouver, for...
Keep coming back to the idea that—ideally—the Atmosphere ultimately wants to become something like a public utility. But obviously not an American public utility. But also not a European one, nor one belonging to any conventional state. A new type of thing entirely—a global public utility.
Air conditioning
Personally I don’t like air conditioning for likely-undiagnosed-autistic sensory reasons, but as someone who lives in Japan, I’ve been resigned to the fact that I’ll face serious repercussions physically if I don’t use it on a daily basis as of the past several summers. Search terms: Air conditioners, air conditioning in Europe, AC, air-con, エアコン
う〜んと思いながら読んだ。なんというか、BBCがこの問題を扱う手つき自体にも、エアコンという技術への不慣れさが現れているような気がする。エアコンによる廃熱は基本的に熱交換で、閉鎖された室内空間と、外気（ほぼ無限に存在する熱媒体）のあいだの熱収支はおおむね均衡しているので、エアコン…
