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(DIR) Post #AXh7Sk6IxuKa1rHYS8 by kevinrns@mstdn.social
2023-07-14T16:41:08Z
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You're going to read about the climate heat using these "normal" words but the temp above too hot, is death. It doesn't just feel hot, it kills. Thats how hot climate "warming" gets."In Palm Springs — where Friday's high temperature was forecast to hit 116 degrees — many homeless people left to contend with the heat on their own."I don't know how anyone can do it," he said. "I feel so bad . . . there's not much I can do."Build sun, wind. All of it, NOW#Climatehttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/heat-wave-temperatures-southwest-fire-risk-to-california/
(DIR) Post #AXh7SkxTmCrigmA1Kq by Barbramon1@mas.to
2023-07-14T16:48:13Z
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@kevinrns Normally Palm Springs doesn't open its cooling centers on Sunday-makes no sense to me-but they will do so this weekend. Unhoused can use those facilities. Obviously this is just a bandaid covering two festering wounds, homelessness and climate change. Both are tough, multifaceted problems that can no longer be ignored.
(DIR) Post #AXh7SlmAjjPnDzsVLk by kevinrns@mstdn.social
2023-07-14T17:10:56Z
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@Barbramon1 Excessive heat hurts power grids. Excessive use from excessive heat hurts power grids.Power going out, authorities warn, means "hundreds of thousands" could need medical care. Or worse.Next year the temperatures will be higher.The next year after that will be higher, because oil execs and politicians have lied for decades.The next year, temperatures will be higher.We have been warned.We've been reassured, they were lying.Build all the sun, wind, now.#Climate
(DIR) Post #AXh7Soe845lQ7v8cjI by jeber@mastodon.social
2023-07-14T17:47:36Z
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@kevinrns @Adirondack @Barbramon1 Humans never deal appropriately with existential crisis. Unless it’s happening today we ignore it. We’ll pay lip service to the problem but make no real progress. It’s a form of “out of sight, out of mind”.
(DIR) Post #AXh7T2J1HNCGUVMxlo by Barbramon1@mas.to
2023-07-14T17:54:29Z
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@jeber @kevinrns @Adirondack It's happening today. More and more people who thought they were safe from the dire consequences of climate change are seeing those changes in their own back yards. When it's no longer an abstract concept people may be spurred to take action.
(DIR) Post #AXh7T6bbIER7pI5rHs by kevinrns@mstdn.social
2023-07-14T17:57:32Z
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@Barbramon1 @jeber @Adirondack The demand is build.Japan sank the American fleet in Pearl Harbour, fascist Japan's conqquer the world plan with Nazi Germany.Roosevelt rebuilt the fleet, as fast as America could, and defeated fascist Japan.Build Sun and wind energy generation like tanks and ships for war.Right now.#Climate
(DIR) Post #AXh7TAm1nP9ckn0F60 by Adirondack@toad.social
2023-07-14T18:06:15Z
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@kevinrns @Barbramon1 @jeber Also: wash your clothes about a quarter as much as you do now, and hang them to dry; don't use the dryer.Work from home if possible. Install a heat pump or a swamp cooler instead of an air conditioner.Put in rooftop solar if you can.Grow your own vegetables and raise a few backyard chickens if you have the space.Ride your bicycle where safe.Take public transportation where available. These are not huge sacrifices, and can even be lots of fun.
(DIR) Post #AXh7TIvtSbnc3hgEaG by panduck@mastodon.green
2023-07-14T18:47:44Z
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@Adirondack @kevinrns @Barbramon1 @jeber I thought a heat pump and an airconditioner was the same thing :o
(DIR) Post #AXh7TOl7nYka82gidE by Adirondack@toad.social
2023-07-14T19:06:43Z
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@panduck @kevinrns @Barbramon1 @jeber A heat pump transfers heat into or out of your home from the outdoor compressor via a refrigerant, where an indoor fan unit either cools or heats the air by blowing it over a coil of the refrigerant. It can either heat or cool your home. An air conditioner cools hot outside air then blows it into your house. So, rather than continually cooling the increasingly cool inside air, it always has to cool the hot outside air. Less efficient than a heat pump.
(DIR) Post #AXh7TVE3ktScBWGuZ6 by highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social
2023-07-14T19:17:04.034949Z
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@Adirondack @panduck @kevinrns @Barbramon1 @jeber What? An air conditioner *is* a heat pump.
(DIR) Post #AXh7TX86fzt45dVBZ2 by feld@bikeshed.party
2023-07-14T19:17:56.679357Z
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yup, just run AC in reverse to get a heat pump
(DIR) Post #AXnBXT6V9ThDWkdtyq by thepoliticalcat@mastodon.social
2023-07-14T22:52:02Z
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@kevinrns @Barbramon1 We put in solar power last year, with a storage battery. This year, we put in a heat pump. We also put a cooling layer on top of our roof and had it painted with a special paint. No devices currently on except computers, and it's a pleasant 64F in here. If it gets hotter, we can switch on the heat pump using our own stored power (not pulling off the grid). That should help those who don't have solar. I wish my neighbors would be better about putting it in.
(DIR) Post #AXnBXU2ze0U4SA0c9Q by Litzz11@mastodon.world
2023-07-14T22:56:41Z
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@thepoliticalcat @kevinrns @Barbramon1 It's extremely expensive. I had a rooftop solar system, I know. You'd think some of this rich billionaires who claim to care about climate change would start non-profits bringing clean energy to people of modest incomes, instead of vanity runs for president.
(DIR) Post #AXnBXUeZOIXeKhacim by kevinrns@mstdn.social
2023-07-14T23:09:00Z
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@Litzz11 @thepoliticalcat @Barbramon1 Biden taxed the untaxed, corporations who avoided responsibility to the society that created and feeds them, raising almost a trillion dollars. Those funds were directed to climate, the largest climate action in history, a good first step. 500 billion in heat pumps and other ways to reduce energy use and cost.Roosevelt Truman and Eisenhower paid off the WW2 debt, and then built universities and the highway system.We can do this. #climate