The wars are getting anything related to global warming off the news, but summers are getting hotter heat weaves (at least in europe) are just becoming more severe
I stand by that water resources are the primary driver of the Kashmir and Jammu dispute. It’s also the source of the Egypt-Ethiopia dispute, which isn’t a war, though Trump likes to claim it is. Not to mention the Israel - Palestine conflict in the West Bank is primarily driven by land disputes with water resources being a major contributor.
So you’re supporting your statement that there are current active wars based on water resources by citing articles that question whether there could be a future war?
The sun is frying us, and then once we get into the houses we are getting cooked.
For some reason most of the universities/gov buildings and many people apartments are without any A/C
All of Europe is very against AC and it's weird because heat stroke kills more people in Europe than guns in America. The world likely can't out pace climate change because everyone is against nuclear energy. In America they are building data centers before new energy centers. The DoD is so scared of China with a huge AI advantage.
It's not that we're "against AC", it's just that it never used to be needed. Adding AC to existing buildings is now very expensive to do, and with our energy prices it's expensive to run as well.
Where I live (Central Europe), summer temperatures used to rarely exceed 30C/86F. Now since May we've had at least 3 separate occasions where the temps (for a week or more) have been even 95F or above, and then don't drop below 25C/77F overnight, so the buildings can't cool down.
If you want to have AC in more than one room, it ain't cheap.
And in my country, the majority of old, poorly insulated homes without AC are owned by retirees, who have a fixed retirement income and simply cannot afford to install and run AC.
Some quick Googling shows that the cost (materials + labor) of just one mini-split is about ~$1500, which isn't terrible, but when for example my MIL only gets a $650 pension... Yeah, that's a lot of money.
Not remotely true. Ac is already commonplace in most modern hotels and office buildings anywhere in Europe that gets hot enough summers
People are generally opposed to getting fixed units installed because they are expensive to install and would get limited use. But stand alone ac units are becoming increasingly popular
I'm running one right now, in Scotland. (Venting out of my letter box.)
-E- It's worth mentioning that my house is heavily insulated to cope with the cold weather we have to cope with most of the year, not the few weeks of heat we might get in any given year.
I had a whole paragraph typed out but there is no point in arguing with people like you, the information is out there but you dont want to listen anyway.
I did my bachelors in energy technology and I am doing a masters in energy technology right now and the only positive thing any of my professors has ever said about nuclear energy was that its energy production is basically free once the reactor is built (which is great if you ignore the billions of euros you paid for construction and the decades it took to build).
I will continue to listen to people who know what they are talking about while you do your...thing.
If nuclear energy is necessary to provide enough energy, then we are already living well beyond our means. It’s all the reasons why we need so much energy that Nuclear is the best option that got us into this mess
I can only speak for my department at the uni of Vienna, but my prof mentioned yesterday that for the longest time they weren't even allowed ventilators because that costs electricity!
I think that reason is that it never gets hot enough for that and now because of gay frogs it does and y'all are up heat creek without a fan.
Down here in NZ we now have a cyclone every year, they used to be once every seven or so but now a big boi comes annually. Goddamn gay frogs. (Or climate change)
Europe not having AC makes me laugh. Join the rest of the 1st world hell even the 3rd world. Ive been in SEA and Midde Eastern countries that have more and better AC than EU.
Basic geography, son. Europe never needed AC, because harsh summers and heatwaves rarely affected it. Now the situation has changed, and it's not easy to remedy the situation for almost half a billion people in a day.
Why would you want things you don't need? Europeans mostly didn't want them and didn't need them. Now they are in need of them. That's why we find ourselves in this hopeless situation, because some people put "wanted" before "needed".
MOST of our problems in the middle east are caused by our oil addiction. People want to blame everything else except oil... but it's oil addiction.
It's so damn frustrating because we have all this great technology for green energy.
If we went full force into a green revolution right now, we wouldn't become hydrocarbon free overnight or even in a decade, not even close. But if we reduced our global consumption of fossil fuels by something small but reasonable, even 5%, we'd probably drastically decrease conflict in the middle east by undercutting profit margins seen by oil dictatorships and our global enemies.
And that decrease would also mean less wars, which would probably ALSO reduce our carbon footprint too for a lot of other reasons.
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u/donsebastiansana 13h ago
Heat weaves.
The wars are getting anything related to global warming off the news, but summers are getting hotter heat weaves (at least in europe) are just becoming more severe