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First panel: a poorly drawn figure with half-closed lids asks a smart™ thermostat “hey little man hows it goin?” Second Panel: the smart thermostat points with a large arrow at a screenshot of a graphic that reads “August Trends: Heating & cooling compared with last year”, and shows zero hours more heating, 129 hours more cooling, with a small caption underneath that reads “On average, temperatures were 5 degrees warmer than August 2022” Third Panel: the poorly drawn figure with half-closed lids is shown with an unreadable smile in front of a semi-transparent image of a NASA article that reads “NASA Clocks July 2023 as Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880” Fourth Panel: the poorly drawn figure says “yea”

  • rustyricotta@lemmy.ml
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    The facts became so undeniable that they’re forced to accept that things are changing, but now they insist that the changes are absolutely not related to our environmental fuckery but are a natural thing.

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      “Humans couldn’t possibly change the environment that much!” [gets in manufactured vehicle and drives an hour to work on a concrete roadway without seeing a single natural tree or animal]

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          I was so confused by “Insulate Britain” - I thought it’s some weird satire and the showsection is called “Insult Britain”. But growing-concrete guy was serious and that was a real news show - crazy.

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            Aye there’s some reet proper creatures on British news shows. Scarily sometimes they don’t get made to look quite as daft as that

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      The most obnoxious thing is that even if we were seeing natural warming, the greenhouse effect would still be a real thing we have directly observed on Venus and the dumbest bastard in the world should consider not making things worse.

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    My house has had 2 different AC units fail this summer. One of them failing 7 times, I shit you not 7 times.

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    Air conditioning costs have been ridiculous this year. I have had to both run it for longer and electricity costs more.

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      A desk/stand fan helps. We keep our thermostat at 77 during the day and have a fan on instead. Our bills haven’t gone up a lot compared to previous years. 77 is actually comfortable. The problem is the air is not circulating/moving, so your AC works overtime because you tend to lower it so it keeps turning on and moving air around. We even feel the need to use a blanket in the living room because 77 with a fan directly pointed at you actually feels cold.

      • that is 25 °C in metric.

        Unless living in a swamp 27° C or 81°F is the earliest we’d use a fan most of the times though. I thought you’d have to get your flats to 31°C/ 90°F when complaining about how expensive AC is. 25/77 is really luxurious

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          Oh believe me, I grew up in a tropical country and 26C was the lowest I set my AC to, and that was for sleeping. People in places like the US just have a different perspective. I sometimes see comments saying they keep it at 70F during the day and 65F at night to sleep comfortably. I already feel uncomfortably cold at 72F.

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          Haha I just work in 30°C with a fan that feels like it does nothing at those temps. In this house we sweat like pigs during the summer.

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        Where we live, I’d run the A/C very few days in the summer. My husband gets so uncomfortable in the heat, though.

        A/C sometimes makes me feel disproportionately cold. I’m not sure why. I can be outside working in the winter, no problem, but A/C is something else entirely.

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    How can it be political if all of the political parties agree it’s happening and we need to do someth…

    Ah, forgot about our cranially-challenged little cousins

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    Meanwhile we used over 3000kwh each month through the cooler months just keeping the house warm to 17-18C

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      So? Are you complaining that

      • your house is poorly insulated or
      • that you are in a bad place financially or
      • that Australia’s energy mix is not sustainable enough or
      • that you cannot afford a heat pump for efficient heating?

      Or is it something else?

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        Landlords don’t care about insulating properly

        Energy prices are 30c per kwh, insane energy bill of 1000$ per month to heat to a cold temperature

        This is using heat pump heating 💀

        For a place to be “fit” for living in, it should cost less than a thousond a month in heating. All this while half the world is struggling with heat, wild isn’t it?

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    I lived through August with constant 36+ without an AC. Next year I’m fixing the damn thing or I’ll just die.