It's mostly about the perception that AC is a band-aid that doesn't just stall fixing the root cause of climate change caused by excessive energy consumption, but actively makes it worse.

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swiftcoder an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I think this view is changing as solar adoption takes off in southern Europe. Here in Spain we're in the position that market rates for electricity are often negative while the sun is shining (although these rates are not really passed onto consumers at present).

That makes additional cooling load almost a non-issue, and can help incentivise the transition from diesel boilers -> heat pumps, as well as driving the grid upgrades we sorely need to make use of all the solar capacity.

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globular-toast 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why is this "a perception"? It's true isn't it? I'm going to get AC but the situation is quite worrying.

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Muromec an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It isn't necessarily true. Here (bottom of the sea) it's only hot when the there isn't any clouds, so solar energy that produces the heat is also producing the electricity to run the AC.

It's also a misdirection of guilt. It's not the accumulated CO2 from the decades of burning all kinds of shit that is driving the weather, it's your personal AC unit.

	▲	estearum 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You're describing a very new and not-yet-realized state of affairs where large amounts of power comes from solar. In that world, then yeah obviously the initial concern isn't valid.

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vrganj an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Indeed. It is true. However, it's not exactly helping if the other side of the pond burns gas turbines to power their AI dreams and tells us to "just get AC bro".

AC does make the problem worse, the issue is just that climate change is mostly out of Europe's control.