Obviously this only applies to people in the northern hemisphere, but I guess anybody in the south can just go off their past anecdotes.
Where I live it usually rains from August to December, then snows in January, then rains again from February to mid-May. Right now we’ve been getting highs of 75F (~23C) (yes, go ahead and laugh Arizonans) and I’ve just been dying inside. I have my fan constantly on and my car’s A/C is on literally the coldest temperature. I love the rain here and it hasn’t rained for an actual month. We had one (!) overcast day in the past like 3 weeks. I just really wanna wake up to rain and 45F (~7C) again. I know I’ve only got a month and a half til that starts to become a reality, but it’s just passing by so slowly.
It doesn’t help that I’m pretty far north, so the sun has been setting around 8:30 PM with last light as late as 9:30, and then rising at like 5 in the morning. Honestly my favorite time of year is when I get home from work and the sun has already set.
I grew up in a place where winters got to -36°C (ok, it happened once, usually didn’t go below -30/-32). Summer can touch high 30s – low 40s.
I now live in a place with very mild winters and acceptable summers (a week of 20s, a week of 30s, etc.) but my partner wants to move to Spain and I am like, NOPE.
I hate hot days.
But, we’re in for hell Beeple. Time to start mitigation from small to large scale. This global heating will take decades to reverse now and some suggestions for what individuals can do are enough to give a person heatstroke.
For example, there is a suggestion to govern A/C units to 28°C and to put timers on vehicle A/C except for public and commercial transit.
I might be willing to support 25C or 26C but 28 seems a bit high.
as if the first thing I’d do wouldn’t be to hotwire the compressor engagement into an off the shelf temperature controller.
I don’t really see the point of that other than punishing people for driving (which in the 30 years I’ve lived in the US has not once been a choice between driving and mass transit). It’s a marginal difference in fuel consumption at best.
Measuring the commanded torque from my ECU it’s about 1-2 lb-ft difference.
A lot of propositions would only make marginal differences. Does using A/C in cars emit more GHG?
Not enough that the average person couldn’t make it up elsewhere with far less inconvenience. You could just leave more following distance, start coasting to stops earlier and accelerate gradually and save a lot more fuel. Most people drive like methed up maniacs.
Driver education, and proper vehicle maintenance would go much farther and actually improve safety and comfort. Most people don’t even check their tire pressures once a week, month, year.