#ClimateDiary The wonderful climate activist (and co-author and friend) Aaron Thierry writing yesterday about his village in Wales and Storm Bert.
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#ClimateDiary The wonderful climate activist (and co-author and friend) Aaron Thierry writing yesterday about his village in Wales and Storm Bert.
The psychological strain of back-to-back disaster (village was badly flooded in 2020 too) as well as traumatic memories of the Aberfan disaster 60 years ago (and fears it will happen again) are immense.
“We’re also going to have to look after each other as best we can through community building and mutual care. “
In Wales, we’re one more flood away from another disaster like Aberfan | Aaron Thierry
It is only a matter of time before a mountainside is brought down. We need climate adaptation help – and we need it now, says climate expert Aaron Thierry
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)replied to Pauline von Hellermann last edited by
@pvonhellermannn There are so many levels of bad planning in for climate change in the UK, but the one that really bugs me is that measures to reduce climate change do not take into account the facts of climate change.
Modern building regulations are great at keeping houses warm. A new-build house is far cheaper to heat (i.e. uses a lot less energy) than one built even 30 years ago. Yet the regulations say nothing about cooling. As a result, all of those heating savings risk being undone by people adding after-market air conditioners to keep houses cool in the summer heat waves. Simple passive cooling designs (such as putting the bottom end of staircases pointing south so that hot air has a path to rise and cause circulation) would help a lot, but they're not required.
Worse, if you buy a heat pump today, you are disqualified from the subsidy if the heat pump can do cooling as well as heating. One enterprising vendor has a heat pump that works in cooling mode only if an additional resistor is present and sells the resistor as an after-market add-on so that they qualify for the subsidy, but cooling modes should be a requirement for new heat pumps, not an undesirable extra feature.
There is simply no understanding of how to address systemic problems anywhere in government.
