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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”
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.
“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]
Well, I’ll have you know that concrete is very natural, so natural in fact, that you can grow it
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.
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
My house has had 2 different AC units fail this summer. One of them failing 7 times, I shit you not 7 times.
I don’t have an A/C unit. Just the world’s largest swamp cooler, aka The Pacific Ocean.
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
Air conditioning costs have been ridiculous this year. I have had to both run it for longer and electricity costs more.
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.
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.
I hate it when facts get all political.
I lived through August with constant 36+ without an AC. Next year I’m fixing the damn thing or I’ll just die.
