Bericht warnt: „Großbritannien ist auf ein Klima ausgelegt, das nicht mehr existiert“ und braucht dringend Veränderungen, um die globale Erwärmung zu überstehen
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/20/uk-built-for-climate-that-no-longer-exists-and-needs-urgent-changes-to-survive-global-heating-report-warns
Von topotaul
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Make heat pumps and air con the basic minimum for new builds.
This seems like a strong case against letting self-centered, greedy, malicious people have power. A lot of work needs doing. Otherwise a lot of people saying „Britain is broken“ will be even more responsible for Britain being broken, with that being more literal.
The best solution is planning reforms. We need to get to building lots of homes, offices, shops and other places that are more suitable for our new climate.
All the billions and billions of taxpayer money our virtuous politicians spaff on „climate emergency“, hobbling our economy to artificial deadlines, making everything more expensive…as if anything this country does is going to move the needle on global temperatures _at all_ – when **THIS** is the shit we should be funding. Actually preparing for the god damn inevitable.
Best we can do is tax credits for data centers and keep validating a party that thinks global warming is made up
We could just move everything to Scotland. It’s plenty cold up here.
Hospitals need it urgently. I was in hospital a few years ago when there was that late september heatwave. FML dealing with that, even with a fan on my face it was 20x worse than the giant hole in my leg, almost made me just check myself out. Giant south facing windows. a portable aircon but no cover around the cracked open giant window. was unbearable from like 9am to 10pm.
when i was moaning about this they said well you can walk so why not go and try and find somewhere cooler, or outside. I hatched a plan.
next day i got all my painkillers aligned about 12pm. said „ok im off to find somewhere cooler“. walked outside, got a cab back to my flat and lay there my bed with MY aircon on until 6pm, then got a cab back. „did you find somewhere nice and cool?“ „yeah i did thanks“. Did that for a few days. Cost 30 odd quid every day in cab fares every day but FML better than dying for hours in bed.
Is this heating supposed to be happening? It’s nearly June and it’s still cold
I struggle to take the climate contorl methods seriously when every policy is aimed at the poor and working class solving the problem and not the mega rich.
Climate change is real and needs tackling, definitely. But, it’s annoying that I could be environmentally concious for an entire year only for it to be all undone the second some multi-millionaire decides to go from London to Glasgow on his private jet.
Ban private jets and private yachts from the UK for starters. That’d get more people on board–even the doubers, if they see „shit, the mega rich are being targetted, maybe there i actually something to climate change afterall“
Maybe stop cutting down trees and building on green belts.
We are one of the most nature depleted countries in the world with only 13.5% of forests left (that we are aware of) in the UK and only 2.5% of ancient woodlands left.
If maybe trees provided Wi-Fi maybe they’d care more about trees, but they provide oxygen and habitats for our critical ecosystem…
We have not got the certainty that heat will be the issue. If the Gulf Stream collapses it will likely get colder and dryer.
Everyone thought Insulate Britain were crazy. FYI a heat pump just over works and isn’t as effective if your house is leaky and uninsulated.
Sounds like anyone wanting good paying, plentiful work should start skilling up in HVAC.
Already doing well.
Fuck off! I have about eight days a year when I don’t wear four layers of clothes up here.
Ice was falling out of the sky yesterday, it’s the middle of May. It’s not just the heat that’s the problem.
With election cycles and the costs involved this simply isn’t happening, it’ll then get to the point where we end up urgently spending way, waaaaay more than necessary to fix foreseeable issues.
If you install solar panels on a house, how much can they power aircon? Can they provide half the energy required for aircon? 3/4? less? After all, there is a strong correlation between sun intensity and need for aircon
Problem is our buildings were built to keep the heat in, and not push it out. And the climate is changing a lot faster than we adapt to it… right now. Not saying it’s impossible to change, but definitely need new rules.
1: aircon/heatpump as single systems for all new homes.
2: require new build homes to be correctly oriented (north-south, not east west) if at all possible with sufficient shading of the south facing elevation (roughly 1:2 ratio.. if you’re shading a 1meter tall window you need a 1/2meter overhang. Smaller glazing on north east and west glazing, larger glazing on the south side WITH NO E-LAYER (otherwise you lose the winter sun warmth getting in the house), sure make the south facing glass triple glazed to compensate for the lack of an e-layer/
3: ensure all loft space is sufficiently ventilated so as to prevent heat buildup which can radiate throughout the upper floor.
4: if the gulf stream slows (it’s predicted to slow substantially over a 2yr period if and when it does slow down) then the UK will get colder as the ocean cools, we should be building homes expected to last 100years to cope with swings in the weather in either direction, once you’re adding insulation, adding a slightly greater thickness doesn’t make much difference. The main thing is heat pumps would need to function to -20C.
If everyone shifts to heat pumps and adds aircon over the next decade, summer peak’s going to be wildddd
The fix is making the kit flexible. Run it when there’s slack, pause when it’s tight. Households get paid for it too.
Disclosure, FlexMyPower runs that. Pilot just opened.
I have a new build Bungalow 2022 which has a air source heat pump with underfloor heating, very snug and warm but I had aircon fitted all over the bungalow, I installed 25 x solar panels and 3x5kwh batteries. Cool in the summer and snug in the winter, but only snug if the outside temperature stays above 6’c otherwise the heat pump struggles to heat above 18’c however my aircon heats as well as cools so we use that, fortunately the solar does all this for free.. 95% of the time. Developers need to build with all these things already installed.
There has got to be some cunt benefitting from the Climate change bullshit in a monetary sense.
i hope so as its been bloody freezing in cumbria for the past 10 years
Just bought an aircon unit for my new flat and removed all the radiators.
It’s way too well insulated and impossible to get a draft.