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First panel: a poorly drawn figure with half-closed lids asks a smart™ thermostat "hey little man hows it goin?" Second Panel: the smart thermostat points with a large arrow at a screenshot of a graphic that reads "August Trends: Heating & cooling compared with last year", and shows zero hours more heating, 129 hours more cooling, with a small caption underneath that reads "On average, temperatures were 5 degrees warmer than August 2022" Third Panel: the poorly drawn figure with half-closed lids is shown with an unreadable smile in front of a semi-transparent image of a NASA article that reads "NASA Clocks July 2023 as Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880" Fourth Panel: the poorly drawn figure says "yea"
The facts became so undeniable that they're forced to accept that things are changing, but now they insist that the changes are absolutely not related to our environmental fuckery but are a natural thing.
Air conditioning costs have been ridiculous this year. I have had to both run it for longer and electricity costs more.
A desk/stand fan helps. We keep our thermostat at 77 during the day and have a fan on instead. Our bills haven't gone up a lot compared to previous years. 77 is actually comfortable. The problem is the air is not circulating/moving, so your AC works overtime because you tend to lower it so it keeps turning on and moving air around. We even feel the need to use a blanket in the living room because 77 with a fan directly pointed at you actually feels cold.
Where we live, I'd run the A/C very few days in the summer. My husband gets so uncomfortable in the heat, though.
A/C sometimes makes me feel disproportionately cold. I'm not sure why. I can be outside working in the winter, no problem, but A/C is something else entirely.
Smh why can't the temperature and chemical content of the air be nonpolitical
Meanwhile we used over 3000kwh each month through the cooler months just keeping the house warm to 17-18C
