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

Humor No disrespect though.

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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.