UK needs to urgently install air conditioning in schools and care homes, climate campaigners say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/25/uk-urgently-install-air-conditioning-in-schools-care-homes-climate-campaigners-say
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Zombie@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 87d
Disingenuous headline which implies climate campaigners are for the use of energy intensive means of climate control in summer instead of opening some windows.
Would be a more accurate description of their stance. Which is far more reasonable than the original headline suggests.
danielquinn@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 87d
...along with solar panels... right? So many schools with flat roofs, and bundling solar with AC only makes sense.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al · 2 pts · 87d
Install heat pumps FFS!
makingrain@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 87d
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al · 4 pts · 87d
What I mean is just install heat pumps everywhere, as they can both heat and cool, whereas traditional air conditioners just cool.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 87d
I'm shocked that this isn't required by default on new builds.
echodot@feddit.uk · 0 pts · 87d
Well it is quite hot today but it'll cool down
muzzle@lemmy.zip · -4 pts · 87d
Italy never had air conditioning in schools, LOL!
brewery@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 87d
They have buildings and infrastructure designed with the weather in mind though, with generations of knowledge used to make it suitable before AC was a thing, for instance external blinds everywhere, orientation of the building to the sun/winds. Our schools were built to retain heat as much as possible
muzzle@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 87d
muzzle@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 87d
What you say is partly true, but Italian summers are still way too hot. But our only option was to suffer it.
yuumei@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 87d
Genuinely interested: do you have external shutters or awnings on buildings like schools in Italy? I have to pay £500 to a council planning department to get them approved to be installed. (Which is utterly ridiculous)
mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 87d
What about internal shutters?
yuumei@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 87d
Sure but they don't work as-well because the energy has already penetrated the glass and now needs to traverse the glass again to escape, better than nothing but not as good as external shutters
muzzle@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 87d
Sometimes shutters, sometimes Venetian blinds.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 87d
And they’re now on Round 2 of Fascism. Maybe their brains fried in the classrooms.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · -8 pts · 87d
So many people here in the UK can't manage 3 days of somewhat unpleasant heat.
Sure, I would like to cool my house down a bit when it's hot. But no I don't want to spend any real amount of money on it.
radiouser@crazypeople.online · 11 pts · 87d
That's probably because you're not in a care home or of schools age (I'm assuming?) kids and people in care are much more suspectable to things like heatstroke. Glad to hear you're not struggling.