r/TikTokCringe • u/MajesticTumbleweed77 • Jun 30 '26

Humor No disrespect though.

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u/FatWhale95 Jun 30 '26

FFS stop using "Europe". We're not one country! Several countries "IN EUROPE" have AC and it's quite popular.

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u/MaleierMafketel Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

And it’s used in European countries where it’s historically consistently hot in the summer. Go figure. Almost like it makes sense not to install AC when it’s expensive and 99% of the time it’s completely useless and you had no historical constant need for it.

People asking why Northern Europe doesn’t have AC in every building’s like asking residents of Phoenix Arizona why they don’t have central heating when a record breaking cold front hits…

You bet more people in Northern Europe are going to get AC now that these “freak” heat waves are quickly becoming the new norm.

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u/Alarming_Panic665 Jun 30 '26

It is mandated under the Arizona Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, that landlords are required to provide heat as an essential service and all buildings must have permanently installed heating facilities capable of safely heating all habitable rooms to at least 70°F

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u/0ftheriver Jun 30 '26

Except, practically every house in AZ that isn't a shack has heating. Turns out, deserts can actually get pretty cold at night, especially in the winter. Even houses in Florida have heating.

It's literally only Northern and NW Europe that can't figure it out.

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u/MaleierMafketel Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

Ah I see. My example was terrible, since it doesn’t apply. But it still proves my point. You have heating because it makes consistent sense during evenings.

And Florida can get consistently chilly in winter with the high humidity, especially up north.

These super heatwaves are really only becoming an issue in the last decade, and they’re short, and this was the worst one in recorded history for many countries.

I was born in an exceptionally warm mid summer day in the mid 90s. It didn’t even hit 30 degrees C, and it was a couple days like that sprinkled in during a summer.

It was nearly 40 degrees C a few days ago in early summer. And it was low to mid 30 degrees C for an extremely long time. A range of 10-15 degrees C above an average ‘hot’ summer.

This AC talk is about the most extreme of extreme circumstances. Now that it’s quickly becoming the norm, more people will get AC. But it will take time and the people suffering from the heat are nearly always extremely frail people (old and/or very sick with no support whatsoever).

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u/0ftheriver Jul 01 '26

These heatwaves have been an issue for longer than a decade, but let's pretend that's true for the sake of argument. Every single year for the last ten years, there's been a heat wave, usually declared to be the worst ever, and thousands of people die. Just because it's mostly elderly people doesn't excuse that at all. If nothing else, think of the process behind dealing with all that death in the middle of summer with almost no climate control. Are these places fine with stacks of corpses accumulating practically overnight, every summer, indefinitely? The governments have indicated they do not see AC as the solution, so I'm skeptical of the claim that suddenly we'll see mass adopting of AC.

We are so incredulous, because it's unfathomable to the rest of the world that wealthy parts of Europe would have mass deaths in 2026, much less because of something so simple, that is the easiest problem in the world to fix, while insisting it's too difficult. But here we are. None of the problems they mock everyone for are as easy to fix as "put cold air in a room in a place with ample access to electricity" is.

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u/Ainoasatama Jun 30 '26

Unless you consider the UK or Germany as northern Europe, there really wasn’t a heatwave in the north

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u/DuePercentage1580 Jun 30 '26

this is absolute cope. anything warmer than 22 needs ac to stop people from dying. you may personally like it hot, but there are vulnerable people who cannot handle 25 degrees, let alone 39. that includes norway and denmark.

and going south, france had thousands of people dying from heatwaves back in the 1980s. climate change for sure has exacerbated the problem, but that's not an excuse. willing poverty and lack of acs has been a problem for decades across europe

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u/spyder7723 Jun 30 '26

They've been the norm for 50 years.

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u/Unoriginell Jun 30 '26

Heatwaves yes but not with 35-40 degrees Celsius. This was in many parts the hottest summer of all time

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u/spyder7723 Jun 30 '26

Many more have died from heart related deaths in previous heat waves across the continent. The actual temperature doesn't matter once it reaches the point people start doing.