Also, pretty big talk when Texas couldn’t handle what would be a medium-big at best snowfall in the Northeast without people freezing to death and boiling snow to drink.

Lol do you think it might be because Texas experienced like the worst cold wave it’s suffered in decades if not ever? And not a conspiracy?

Yes. Yes I do. Now you’re getting on the sensible train.

“medium big at best”

Like half a foot of snow and a deep freeze. The former happens here multiple times a winter and the latter every couple winters. And more often before the climate warmed up in general.

The same snowstorm dropped two feet of snow in Oregon and the state didn’t collapse. Ironically, considering the OP.

Air conditioning is a life-or-death matter during heat waves. A heat wave in the 1930s killed 5000 in the US. Today the death toll would be far higher since many modern building are not designed for good ventilation and the age of the population is far older.

Alternative refrigerants have been developed with essentially zero global warming potential. Cooling can be stored in the form of cold water or ice so it can take advantage of renewable energy sources when they are available.

The idea of herding everyone into public cooling areas is absurd. What would people in cooling centers come back to with neighborhoods evacuated and police defunded?

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If that had happened in the Northeast, I might have put on a sweater.

And I certainly wouldn’t worry about my heat going out and pipes freezing.

Well you might have to run a trickle of water out of your sink and bathtub if it was like negative fifteen or twenty.

That’s exactly why I oppose any “Smart Grid” technology. A Democratic governor like Newsome would have no trouble shutting off power anytime he wished to fight climate change or crack down on counties that voted Republican.

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Trickle up poverty … it’s only fair.

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Socialist type changes like this are for the masses not for the political elites.

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That time when Nancy Pelosi posed with ice cream in front of $20K worth of refrigerators…

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More like…they’ll swap the virtuous discomfort of no a/c instead of actual physical work.

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Newsom would do that in a heart beat too authoritarian/dictator style pig that he is.

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I suggest that the quickest way to kill the idea of banning air conditioning for people in tropical climates to propose a ban on heating.

My observation is that the Time article is consistent with the party line coming from Germany and Scandinavia. People there see heating is seen as a necessity but air conditioning as a frivolous luxury. Of course they live in climates with cool summers where hitting 90 F is an extreme heat wave. They have never survived a summer in Mississippi or India.

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I’d be sweltering…I keep it 65-68 summer and winter…My ideal operating temp, according to the manual anyway…lol

Misery index.

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Note…Comparing “brutal” New England summers to here in Texas.

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:rofl: :rofl:

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