'I Feel Duped on Climate Change'

[Horn2RunAgain]

This heat happened once before in my memory, in 1980? 1979? I was working as a camp counselor near Dallas, and the heat was over 110 for several weeks.

It was 1980. Dallas..Back to back 113* days, I think it was 90 days running of no rain and 50 plus 100* days. It was HOT

1998, 2011 felt every bit as hot, maybe because I was older. This summer ranks right up there imo

 

[Mr. Deez]

@Garmel - you want to know what irks me a little? I just put out almost $8,000 to install a nice, new AC unit - in my house in Round Rock that my tenants are enjoying while I'm sweating with the ghetto, POS world-saving unit here that barely works.

 

[Horn2RunAgain]

dallas summer 1980 - Google Search

69 days of 100* +, 29 consecutive over 100*. Per link, 42% of Americans didn't have AC (WOW)

Iirc, the 2011 summer just felt hotter because the low Temps seemed higher than any other

 

[Garmel]

Kinda. I have one in our bedroom. They suck though. You hang the exhaust out the window and "seal" it with Velcro. And they simply aren't that good. The air is fairly cool, but they do little to dehumidify and suck the heat out of the room. Basically they make the room tolerable, not cool. No where near as good as central AC or the window units you see in the US. Keep in mind that we're saving the world, so the AC units we can buy can't be too good.

And of course, the units are ricockulously expensive to use.

Sacrifices you have to make for the wife's job and getting great beer.

 

[mchammer]

@Garmel - you want to know what irks me a little? I just put out almost $8,000 to install a nice, new AC unit - in my house in Round Rock that my tenants are enjoying while I'm sweating with the ghetto, POS world-saving unit here that barely works.

Order a cylinder of liquid air that you can turn on and cool the house at night. Hell, put the hose in your underpants to keep your privates cool.

 

[Garmel]

Probably too humid in England for a swamp cooler to work.

 

[mchammer]

Probably too humid in England for a swamp cooler to work.

No, not the same. Liquid air, when expanded at atmospheric pressure, exerts the Joule-Thompson effect (cooling upon expansion). It’s the same principle that a regular AC operates. In this case, the gas company has already compressed the refrigerant for you. Why buy an AC when you only need it 2 days per summer month?

It’s basically an AC in a large bottle. Because there is no compressor involved, it’s a “once-through” system instead of a “cycle”, thus you need to replenish the bottles once empty.

 

[Mr. Deez]

Why buy an AC when you only need it 2 days per summer month?

We've used ours everyday since getting back from the Azores last Saturday. I may not use it tonight, but I'll definitely use it next week.

 

[Facing Addiction]

We don't have AC either at our house here in the States. Also, it's currently 65 degrees. Of course in the winter we get several days of -20 degrees. I've been cutting, splitting and stacking firewood every week......

 

[mchammer]

The last major Dem bill this year before the election is dead.

 

[Mr. Deez]

Obviously, this is good news, but he's gotta switch parties at some point. Taking a piss on the leadership every chance he gets is going to get old - both to the caucus and primary voters. They will start screwing with him on committee assignments, and he'll eventually get primaried.

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

Why did the post @mchammer gave us make me think of The Wizard of Oz?

DING DONG, the climate bill is dead,
the wicked climate bill is dead!

 

[mchammer]

We've used ours everyday since getting back from the Azores last Saturday. I may not use it tonight, but I'll definitely use it next week.

 

[Mr. Deez]

My big takeaway from this is that next week British chicks will be walking around in bikinis. That's cool. I'm all for it.

 

[Garmel]

My big takeaway from this is that next week British chicks will be walking around in bikinis. That's cool. I'm all for it.

It's the 2020s. It'll be dudes walking around in bikinis.

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

Bikinis or banana hammocks?

 

[Garmel]

Bikinis or banana hammocks?

Good point. Probably both.

 

[Mr. Deez]

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It's the 2020s. It'll be dudes walking around in bikinis.

Maybe in places like Birmingham and Manchester. Around here, it'll be busty British chicks. (Real British women are stacked.) Want to come visit?

 

[Garmel]

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Maybe in places like Birmingham and Manchester. Around here, it'll be busty British chicks. (Real British women are stacked.) Want to come visit?

I wish I could. Giggitty!

 

[mchammer]

 

[Mr. Deez]

This is because the activists act like lunatics. If you predict the apocalypse over and over again, eventually it has to actually happen. If it doesn't, people will tune you out.

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

This is because the activists act like lunatics. If you predict the apocalypse over and over again, eventually it has to actually happen. If it doesn't, people will tune you out.

Yes. The same phenomenon is happening to the Covid doomsayers.

 

[mchammer]

These articles never say the heat wave is over in Europe in 24 hours:

 

[mchammer]

 

[Mr. Deez]

Current temperature in my backyard. Hotter than a mofo.

 

[Horn6721]

I'd say "You're not in Texas anymore"
But nevermind.
That's hotter than Dallas yesterday

 

[mchammer]

Good news is that it will be over at 9 pm your time.

 

[mchammer]

Current temperature in my backyard. Hotter than a mofo.

Weather app says it is 16% humidity. Is it really that dry? If so, swamp coolers would work.

 

[nashhorn]

“Excessively hot”, interesting concept. Sorta like every summer.

 

[Mr. Deez]

Weather app says it is 16% humidity. Is it really that dry? If so, swamp coolers would work.

It's pretty dry. Our ghetto AC unit is doing ok in our bedroom with 3 fans blowing at the same time, so there's relief in one room.