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Trying to shop for anything online, now we aren't part of Eu trading standards rules is like playing bran tub and none of the finds are gems.

I am exhausted searching for a decent 4 in 1 aircon system that doesnt require installing as my landlord wont allow them.

Any good personal experience recommends for something BTU9000 and over are most welcomed.
*sends brain into sleep mode

The real haste is because daughter with her chronic health issues and various medications pretty much only avoided a heatstroke by me ending up with heat exhaustion trying to keep her in cool places and comfortable. What a time not to be in full health.

#technology #disability #heatwave2026 #aircon #uk

Trying to shop for anything online, now we aren't part of Eu trading standards rules is like playing bran tub and none of the finds are gems.

I am exhausted searching for a decent 4 in 1 aircon system that doesnt require installing as my landlord wont allow them.

Any good personal experience recommends for something BTU9000 and over are most welcomed.
*sends brain into sleep mode

The real haste is because daughter with her chronic health issues and various medications pretty much only avoided a heatstroke by me ending up with heat exhaustion trying to keep her in cool places and comfortable. What a time not to be in full health.

#technology #disability #heatwave2026 #aircon #uk

Anyone says 'air con', you whack them with a newspaper and make them repeat 'Heat Pump'!

#unitedKingdom #UK #Heat #HeatWave #AC #AirCon #AirConditioner #AirConditioning

Anyone says 'air con', you whack them with a newspaper and make them repeat 'Heat Pump'!

#unitedKingdom #UK #Heat #HeatWave #AC #AirCon #AirConditioner #AirConditioning

Anyone says 'air con', you whack them with a newspaper and make them repeat 'Heat Pump'!

#unitedKingdom #UK #Heat #HeatWave #AC #AirCon #AirConditioner #AirConditioning

Anyone says 'air con', you whack them with a newspaper and make them repeat 'Heat Pump'!

#unitedKingdom #UK #Heat #HeatWave #AC #AirCon #AirConditioner #AirConditioning

Anyone says 'air con', you whack them with a newspaper and make them repeat 'Heat Pump'!

#unitedKingdom #UK #Heat #HeatWave #AC #AirCon #AirConditioner #AirConditioning

We put an Air Conditioner unit in our Motorhome. Does it work? - videos.trom.tf/w/3BS2Fv6U83MYB…

It's been a few months since we installed this BougeRV Aircon in our motorhome. It consumes around 500W of power. So can it cool down the motorhome and also not destroy our batteries?

What better way to test it than Spain, 33C degrees inside the motorhome.

#airconditioner #motorhome #travel #vanlife #spain #weather #heatwave #ac #aircon #camper
RE: videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/15…

We put an Air Conditioner unit in our Motorhome. Does it work? - videos.trom.tf/w/3BS2Fv6U83MYB…

It's been a few months since we installed this BougeRV Aircon in our motorhome. It consumes around 500W of power. So can it cool down the motorhome and also not destroy our batteries?

What better way to test it than Spain, 33C degrees inside the motorhome.

#airconditioner #motorhome #travel #vanlife #spain #weather #heatwave #ac #aircon #camper
RE: videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/15…

We put an Air Conditioner unit in our Motorhome. Does it work? - videos.trom.tf/w/3BS2Fv6U83MYB…

It's been a few months since we installed this BougeRV Aircon in our motorhome. It consumes around 500W of power. So can it cool down the motorhome and also not destroy our batteries?

What better way to test it than Spain, 33C degrees inside the motorhome.

#airconditioner #motorhome #travel #vanlife #spain #weather #heatwave #ac #aircon #camper
RE: videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/15…

We put an Air Conditioner unit in our Motorhome. Does it work? - videos.trom.tf/w/3BS2Fv6U83MYB…

It's been a few months since we installed this BougeRV Aircon in our motorhome. It consumes around 500W of power. So can it cool down the motorhome and also not destroy our batteries?

What better way to test it than Spain, 33C degrees inside the motorhome.

#airconditioner #motorhome #travel #vanlife #spain #weather #heatwave #ac #aircon #camper
RE: videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/15…

#Forests cool the planet, like natural #aircon. What happens when you cut them down? #Deforestation heats areas up to 4.5℃! Keep forests standing for #people and animals! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🧐🙊⛔️ #BoycottGold 🥇🪙🧐🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/08/14/without-tropical-forests-global-temperatures-would-be-1c-warmer/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#Forests cool the planet, like natural #aircon. What happens when you cut them down? #Deforestation heats areas up to 4.5℃! Keep forests standing for #people and animals! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🧐🙊⛔️ #BoycottGold 🥇🪙🧐🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/08/14/without-tropical-forests-global-temperatures-would-be-1c-warmer/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

🐒 Behold, a groundbreaking innovation: an over-engineered #ESP32 module to control your #Daikin aircon! Because, clearly, toggling the switch manually was way too mainstream. 🤖 Let's all applaud this feat of #technology, which ensures you'll never have to rise from your throne of #laziness again. 😏👏
https://github.com/revk/ESP32-Faikin #Aircon #Innovation #OverEngineered #HackerNews #ngated

🐒 Behold, a groundbreaking innovation: an over-engineered #ESP32 module to control your #Daikin aircon! Because, clearly, toggling the switch manually was way too mainstream. 🤖 Let's all applaud this feat of #technology, which ensures you'll never have to rise from your throne of #laziness again. 😏👏
https://github.com/revk/ESP32-Faikin #Aircon #Innovation #OverEngineered #HackerNews #ngated

Rasenmäher mit Klimaanlage 1950. Und auch sonst ein komisches Bild.
#gardening #airconditioning #50s #garden #ventilation #home #electrician #air #installation #electrical #refrigeration #maintenance #construction #service #summer #heatingandcooling #plumbing #aircon #hvacservice #hvactech #hvactechnician #cooling #airconditioner #hvaclife

Without Tropical Forests, The World Would Be 1°c Warmer

#Research reveals the most comprehensive and detailed evidence to date that #forests are more important to the #climate (globally and locally) than we think due to the way in which they physically transform the atmosphere. The first-ever research to pinpoint the local, regional and global non-carbon dioxide benefits of specific forest zones worldwide finds that the entire world gains the most benefits from the band of tropical rainforests spanning Latin America, Central Africa and Southeast Asia. Help #rainforests, rainforest animals and indigenous peoples every time you shop, make sure you #BoycottPalmOil #BoycottGold #Boycott4Wildlife

#Forests cool the planet, like natural #aircon. What happens when you cut them down? #Deforestation heats areas up to 4.5℃! Keep forests standing for #people and animals! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🧐🙊⛔️ #BoycottGold 🥇🪙🧐🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/08/14/without-tropical-forests-global-temperatures-would-be-1c-warmer/

It finds that, together, forests keep the planet at least half of a degree Celsius cooler when we account for the understudied biophysical effects—from chemical compounds to turbulence and the reflection of light. These effects in the tropics alone deliver planetary cooling of one-third of a degree Celsius; when combined with the carbon dioxide, the cooling effect is over 1 degree Celsius. 

“All forests are precious. Increasingly, we are discovering they also keep the air near and far cool and moist,” said Deborah Lawrence, a professor at the University of Virginia and the lead author of the study, The Unseen Effects of Deforestation: Biophysical Effects on Climate. “The heart of the tropics is at the heart of the planet and these forests are critical for our survival.”  

According to the study, “Locally at all latitudes, forest biophysical impacts far outweigh carbon effects, promoting local climate stability by reducing extreme temperatures in all seasons and times of day.”

“The importance of forests for both global climate change mitigation and local adaptation by human and non-human species is not adequately captured by current carbon-centric metrics, particularly in the context of future climate warming.”    

Scientists already have a well-established understanding of how tropical deforestation contributes to global climate change through emitting carbon and reducing the ability of the world’s forests to take more carbon pollution out of the atmosphere. This is the latest and most comprehensive study in a body of emerging evidence showing how tropical deforestation has climate impacts beyond carbon: Deforestation immediately increases heat and extreme heat locally and decreases regional and local rainfall. Forest loss also disrupts the climate in faraway places. Because of this, forests are even more valuable to climate efforts than previously accounted for in international climate plans and projections.  

The study reviewed the available literature on this emerging science to determine that forests up to 50 degrees north latitude deliver benefits at a global scale that cumulatively keep the entire planet cooler by 1 degree Celsius. This means that any forest protection or restoration efforts taking place between 40 degrees south latitude and—50 degrees north latitude help at the local level as well as the global level. For example, destroying rainforests in the 10 degree band just south of the equator could warm the planet by half of a degree. And restoring forests in the 10 degree band just north of the equator would deliver 25% more global cooling than expected based on CO2 sequestration alone. But the study shows that even those forests outside of this band deliver a host of benefits warranting their protection.  

“A recent major UN climate report showed we must urgently act now to avoid the worst case scenarios for our planet,” Lawrence said.

“If we lose these forests, we will get there 10 years faster. If we protect these forests, they will shield us from extreme climate disasters, droughts and impacts on our food and agriculture. We are benefiting now from the tropics keeping us cooler; they are keeping us from feeling these extremes already.”   

The study notes that deforestation, for example, is responsible for one-third of the increase in intensity of hotter days; forest loss is also behind the increase in hot, dry summers. Our loss in tree cover has also led to local increases in extreme temperatures comparable in magnitude to changes caused by 0.5 degrees Celsius of global warming.  

“Put another way, deforestation pushes people today into an experience we are trying to avoid by hitting 2 degrees rather than 1.5 degrees of warming,” Lawrence said. “People living with deforestation are already suffering the effects of that warmer, more extreme world. Forest restoration would bring them back to a more livable climate.”    

Forest cooling is due to a range of biophysical effects. The study reveals that all forests emit chemicals called Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOCs). On the one hand, BVOCs create aerosols that reflect incoming energy and form clouds; both are cooling effects. On the other hand, they lead to a build-up of ozone and methane, both greenhouse gases. This is a warming effect. On balance, the cooling outweighs the warming. These complex chemical compounds emitted by forests represent a new frontier in our understanding of how forests keep the planet cool near and far. 

Other aspects of forests that enable them to minimize drought associated with extreme heat include their deep roots, high water use efficiency and high surface “roughness.” These qualities allow trees to dissipate heat and move moisture higher into the atmosphere, which directly cools the local area and influences cloud formation and rainfall—which has ramifications far away.  

“Research is making it increasingly clear that forests are even more complex than previously understood. When we cut them down, we see devastating impacts on our climate, food supplies and everyday life. The benefits of keeping forests intact are clear; it’s imperative that we prioritize their protection,” said Wayne Walker, carbon program director at the Woodwell Climate Research Center and one of the study co-authors.  

The recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report warned about the impacts, adaptation and vulnerability humans face with rising temperatures. This new study suggests that forest protection, important to both mitigation and adaptation, protects us from some of the worst climate disasters. And it shows that forests provide local cooling during the hottest times of the year everywhere on the planet, improving the resilience of cities, croplands and conservation areas. In the tropics, where forest carbon stocks and sequestration rates are highest, the biophysical effects of forests amplify the carbon benefits.  

“Protecting primary forests throughout the world should be one of our greatest priorities. These forests are critical for adapting to a warmer world,” said Michael Coe, tropics program director at the Woodwell Climate Research Center and a study co-author. “Without the forest cover we have now, the planet would be hotter and the weather more extreme. Forests provide us defense against the worst-case global warming scenarios.”  

This study adds a more sweeping global perspective to research on the local non-carbon climate impacts of deforestation: 

Researchers recently found that the destruction of forests and other ecosystems in Brazil’s Amazon and Cerrado regions endangers local soy agriculture, calculating that extreme heat costs $3.55 billion annually on top of $1 billion annually for drier conditions.  

Another study showed that rising temperatures and humidity tied to tree loss has already reduced the number of hours in the day people can safely work outside—and will only get worse if more forests are destroyed.  

A third study showed that in the case of Brazil, by 2100, roughly 12 million people could be exposed to extreme risk of heat stress, with vulnerable populations, including Indigenous Peoples, set to be the most severely impacted.  

“Despite the mounting evidence that forests deliver myriad climate benefits, trees are still viewed just as sticks of carbon by many policymakers in the climate change arena,” said Louis Verchot, a principal scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and one of the study co-authors. “It’s time for policymakers at the local and global levels to realize that forests have even greater value to people and economies, now and in the future, due to their non-carbon benefits. Forests are key to mitigation, but also adaptation.” 

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Deforestation Raises Temperatures Up To 4.5℃

Forests directly cool the planet, like natural evaporative air conditioners. So what happens when you cut them down? In tropical countries such as #Indonesia, #Brazil and the #Congo, rapid #deforestation may have accounted for up to 75% of the observed surface #climatechange and warming between 1950 and 2010. Our new research took a closer look at this phenomenon.

Forests cool the planet 🆒🌳🍃 like natural #aircon. What happens when you cut them down? #Deforestation heats local areas as much as 4.5℃. Keep #forests intact for people and rare animals. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/03/06/deforestation-can-raise-local-temperatures-by-up-to-4-5%e2%84%83-and-heat-untouched-areas-6km-away/

Using satellite data over Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea, we found deforestation can heat a local area by as much as 4.5℃, and can even raise temperatures in undisturbed forests up to 6km away.

More than 40% of the world’s population live in the tropics and, under climate change, rising heat and humidity could push them into lethal conditions. Keeping forests intact is vital to protect those who live in and around them as the planet warms.

Deforestation hot spots

At the recent climate change summit in Glasgow, world leaders representing 85% of Earth’s remaining forests committed to ending, and reversing, deforestation by 2030.

This is a crucial measure in our fight to stop the planet warming beyond the internationally agreed limit of 1.5℃, because forests store vast amounts of carbon. Deforestation releases this carbon – approximately 5.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year – back into the atmosphere. This accounts for nearly 10% of the global emissions from 2009-2016.

Deforestation is particularly prevalent in Southeast Asia. We calculate that between 2000 and 2019, Indonesia lost 17% of its forested area (26.8 million hectares of land), and Malaysia 28% of its forest cover (8.12 million hectares). Others in the region, such as Papua New Guinea, are considered “deforestation hot spots”, as they’re at high risk of losing their forest cover in the coming decade.

Forests in this region are cut down for a variety of reasons, including for expanding palm oil and timber plantations, logging, mining and small-scale farms. And these new types of land uses produce different spatial patterns of forest loss, which we can see and measure using satellites.

What we found

We already know forests cool the climate directly, and losing forest causes local temperatures to rise. But we wanted to learn whether the different patterns of forest loss influenced how much temperatures increased by, and how far warming spread from the deforested site into neighbouring, unchanged areas.

To find out, we used satellite images that measure the temperature of the land surface. As the illustration below shows, we measured this by averaging forest loss in rings of different widths and radius, and looking at the average temperature change of the forest inside the ring.

For example, if you consider a circle of forest that’s 4km wide, and there’s a completely deforested, 2km-wide ring around it, the inner circle would warm on average by 1.2℃.

The closer the forest loss, the higher the warming. If the ring was 1-2km away, the circle would warm by 3.1℃, while at 4-6km away, it’s 0.75℃.

These might not sound like big increases in temperature, but global studies show for each 1℃ increase in temperature, yields of major crops would decline by around 3-7%. Retaining forest within 1km of agricultural land in Southeast Asia could therefore avoid crop losses of 10-20%.

These estimates are conservative, because we only measured the effect of forest loss on average yearly temperatures. But another important factor is that higher average temperatures usually create higher temperature extremes, like those during heatwaves. And those really high temperatures in heatwaves are what put people and crops at most risk.

Of course, forests aren’t normally cut down in rings. This analysis was designed to exclude other causes of temperature change, putting the effect of non-local forest loss in focus.

Why is this happening?

Forests cool the land because trees draw water from the soil to their leaves, where it then evaporates. The energy needed to evaporate the water comes from sunshine and heat in the air, the same reason you feel colder when you get out of a pool with water on your skin.

A single tree in a tropical forest can cause local surface cooling equivalent to 70 kilowatt hours for every 100 litres of water used from the soil — as much cooling as two household air conditioners.

Forests are particularly good at cooling the land because their canopies have large surface area, which can evaporate a lot of water. When forests in tropical regions are cut down, this evaporative cooling stops, and the land surface warms up.

This is not news to the people of Borneo. In 2018, researchers surveyed people in 477 villages, and found they’re well aware nearby forest loss has caused them to live with hotter temperatures. When asked why forests were important to their health and the health of their families, the ability for trees to regulate temperature was the most frequent response.

A climate change double whammy

In many parts of the world, including the tropics and Australia, expanding farmland is a major reason for cutting down forest. But given hotter temperatures also reduce the productivity of farms, conserving forests might prove a better strategy for food security and for the livelihoods of farmers.

If forests must be removed, there may be ways to avoid the worst possible temperature increases. For example, we found that keeping at least 10% of forest cover helped reduce the associated warming by an average of 0.2℃.

Similarly, temperatures did not increase as much when the area of forest loss was smaller. This means if deforestation occurs in smaller, discontinuous blocks rather than uniformly, then the temperature impacts will be less severe.

To help share these findings, we’ve built a web mapping tool that lets users explore the effects of different patterns and areas of forest loss on local temperatures in maritime South East Asia. It helps show why protecting forests in the tropics offers a climate change double whammy – lowering carbon dioxide emissions and local temperatures together.

Sally Thompson, Associate professor, The University of Western Australia; Débora Corrêa, Research fellow, The University of Western Australia; John Duncan, Research fellow, The University of Western Australia, and Octavia Crompton, Postdoctoral researcher, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Deforestation Raises Temperatures Up To 4.5℃

Forests directly cool the planet, like natural evaporative air conditioners. So what happens when you cut them down? In tropical countries such as #Indonesia, #Brazil and the #Congo, rapid #deforestation may have accounted for up to 75% of the observed surface #climatechange and warming between 1950 and 2010. Our new research took a closer look at this phenomenon.

Forests cool the planet 🆒🌳🍃 like natural #aircon. What happens when you cut them down? #Deforestation heats local areas as much as 4.5℃. Keep #forests intact for people and rare animals. #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/03/06/deforestation-can-raise-local-temperatures-by-up-to-4-5%e2%84%83-and-heat-untouched-areas-6km-away/

Using satellite data over Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea, we found deforestation can heat a local area by as much as 4.5℃, and can even raise temperatures in undisturbed forests up to 6km away.

More than 40% of the world’s population live in the tropics and, under climate change, rising heat and humidity could push them into lethal conditions. Keeping forests intact is vital to protect those who live in and around them as the planet warms.

Deforestation hot spots

At the recent climate change summit in Glasgow, world leaders representing 85% of Earth’s remaining forests committed to ending, and reversing, deforestation by 2030.

This is a crucial measure in our fight to stop the planet warming beyond the internationally agreed limit of 1.5℃, because forests store vast amounts of carbon. Deforestation releases this carbon – approximately 5.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year – back into the atmosphere. This accounts for nearly 10% of the global emissions from 2009-2016.

Deforestation is particularly prevalent in Southeast Asia. We calculate that between 2000 and 2019, Indonesia lost 17% of its forested area (26.8 million hectares of land), and Malaysia 28% of its forest cover (8.12 million hectares). Others in the region, such as Papua New Guinea, are considered “deforestation hot spots”, as they’re at high risk of losing their forest cover in the coming decade.

Forests in this region are cut down for a variety of reasons, including for expanding palm oil and timber plantations, logging, mining and small-scale farms. And these new types of land uses produce different spatial patterns of forest loss, which we can see and measure using satellites.

What we found

We already know forests cool the climate directly, and losing forest causes local temperatures to rise. But we wanted to learn whether the different patterns of forest loss influenced how much temperatures increased by, and how far warming spread from the deforested site into neighbouring, unchanged areas.

To find out, we used satellite images that measure the temperature of the land surface. As the illustration below shows, we measured this by averaging forest loss in rings of different widths and radius, and looking at the average temperature change of the forest inside the ring.

For example, if you consider a circle of forest that’s 4km wide, and there’s a completely deforested, 2km-wide ring around it, the inner circle would warm on average by 1.2℃.

The closer the forest loss, the higher the warming. If the ring was 1-2km away, the circle would warm by 3.1℃, while at 4-6km away, it’s 0.75℃.

These might not sound like big increases in temperature, but global studies show for each 1℃ increase in temperature, yields of major crops would decline by around 3-7%. Retaining forest within 1km of agricultural land in Southeast Asia could therefore avoid crop losses of 10-20%.

These estimates are conservative, because we only measured the effect of forest loss on average yearly temperatures. But another important factor is that higher average temperatures usually create higher temperature extremes, like those during heatwaves. And those really high temperatures in heatwaves are what put people and crops at most risk.

Of course, forests aren’t normally cut down in rings. This analysis was designed to exclude other causes of temperature change, putting the effect of non-local forest loss in focus.

Why is this happening?

Forests cool the land because trees draw water from the soil to their leaves, where it then evaporates. The energy needed to evaporate the water comes from sunshine and heat in the air, the same reason you feel colder when you get out of a pool with water on your skin.

A single tree in a tropical forest can cause local surface cooling equivalent to 70 kilowatt hours for every 100 litres of water used from the soil — as much cooling as two household air conditioners.

Forests are particularly good at cooling the land because their canopies have large surface area, which can evaporate a lot of water. When forests in tropical regions are cut down, this evaporative cooling stops, and the land surface warms up.

This is not news to the people of Borneo. In 2018, researchers surveyed people in 477 villages, and found they’re well aware nearby forest loss has caused them to live with hotter temperatures. When asked why forests were important to their health and the health of their families, the ability for trees to regulate temperature was the most frequent response.

A climate change double whammy

In many parts of the world, including the tropics and Australia, expanding farmland is a major reason for cutting down forest. But given hotter temperatures also reduce the productivity of farms, conserving forests might prove a better strategy for food security and for the livelihoods of farmers.

If forests must be removed, there may be ways to avoid the worst possible temperature increases. For example, we found that keeping at least 10% of forest cover helped reduce the associated warming by an average of 0.2℃.

Similarly, temperatures did not increase as much when the area of forest loss was smaller. This means if deforestation occurs in smaller, discontinuous blocks rather than uniformly, then the temperature impacts will be less severe.

To help share these findings, we’ve built a web mapping tool that lets users explore the effects of different patterns and areas of forest loss on local temperatures in maritime South East Asia. It helps show why protecting forests in the tropics offers a climate change double whammy – lowering carbon dioxide emissions and local temperatures together.

Sally Thompson, Associate professor, The University of Western Australia; Débora Corrêa, Research fellow, The University of Western Australia; John Duncan, Research fellow, The University of Western Australia, and Octavia Crompton, Postdoctoral researcher, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Boycott the brands causing deforestation for palm oil, soy and meat by joining the #Boycott4Wildlife

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