What a time to be an Irish rapeseed oil producer.
Theyāll probably start jacking up their prices too, just becauseā¦
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@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy whats your understanding of this? The article author and SEAI seem to be confused themselves. Does this mean there will be a regrading of the BER system similar to the regrading of electrical appliances?
My reading is those who upgrades with just insulation and prevention of heat loss may drop down and those with solar PV, heat diverters and heat oumps may get great BERs based on a net sero energy use biased?
https://twitter.com/thejournal_ie/status/1778778910299136027?t=aCwOu7czCNPhWFcQypwxcg&s=19
Omfg
All in reading there is another ācould seeā job.
Fake news and scare mongering again.
Whats fake news and scare mongering, they are changing how the BER ratimg is calculated. The same thing was done with electrical appliances where you see old A+ rated light bulbs are now rated D for example
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Similar to my experience in the āmatters environmentalā thread.
Different situation of course.
Hey, the farmers making protein shakes are more important mate
Whoās the smelliest tfk-Er
Who was that fella on sky news just there? Iām not sure what country he was from but he was a sorry sight anyway. Country absolutely destroyed by the weather.
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He was a prime minister.
Itās very sad.
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TFK in a nutshell. 2 lads with no clue what theyāre talking about whatsoever
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https://x.com/theiaincameron/status/1808744224663179348?s=46
Remember lads the planet is boilingš¤
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Yes it gets hotter. Ice melts into the sea and then the balance of fresh water into the seas changes.
That then in turn has dramatic impact on local weather around the world.
Lucky you werenāt posting on tfk in 1936 when 5000 people died.
The invention of cooling, air conditioning and refrigeration systems has allowed mass population migration to areas that historically were too warm to live in. The increase in populations of states like Florida are testament to that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/07/20/heat-wave-1936/
Abandoned vehicles sinking into scorching-hot orange silt. Fields of dying crops. Ghost towns cowering under black clouds of dust.
The killer U.S. heat wave of 1936 spread as far north as Canada, led to the heat-related deaths of an estimated 5,000 people, sent thermometers to a record 121 degrees Fahrenheit in Steele, N.D., and made that July the warmest month ever recorded in the United States.
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Few residents struggling in those temperatures would have been able to afford such a meal: The heat wave struck during the Great Depression, six years into a sustained period of crop failure and economic hardship.
The North American heat wave of 1936 followed one of the coldest recorded winters in the same area.
In North Dakota, February temperatures at Devilās Lake plunged to minus-21 degrees. Channel ice in the Illinois River at Peoria grew 19 inches thick. The Chesapeake Bay froze entirely, something that has happened only seven times since 1780. Schools closed in the Pacific Northwest, the Great Plains and the Midwest, with rural schools in Cottonwood County, Minn., losing almost a month of class time.
Although greenhouse gases have warmed the worldās oceans since the 1830s and global warming concerns were being raised as early as 1896, the pronounced swing in temperatures in 1936 isnāt generally considered to be part of human-driven climate change.
At the time, 1936 had such a frozen start that the idea of a heat wave would have seemed like wishful thinking.
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