Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
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Re: Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
#2> Hosted in collaboration with the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance.
Their climate resilience seems low.
> The event will finish with a fire side chat
Is this a prank?
Re: Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
#3At first I thought it was just virtue signaling. But no, its the venue.
>Venue: LSE Shaw Library, Houghton St, Old Building, London
https://halls.lse.ac.uk/story/25006031/deal-with-the-uk-weat...
> LSE halls (like most houses in the country) don't have air conditioning, it can be quite suffocating.
I blame LSE. Uni should provide safe and comfortable environment for students.
Re: Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
#4Reminds me of "dermatology convention in Hawaii": https://youtube.com/shorts/1uRxIe1dXGU
Re: Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
#5At first I thought it was just virtue signaling. But no, its the venue. >Venue: LSE Shaw Library, Houghton St, Old Building, London https://halls.lse.ac.uk/story/25006031/deal-with-the-uk-weat... > LSE halls (like most houses in the country) don't have air conditioning, it can be quite suffocating. I blame LSE. Uni should provide safe and comfortable environment for students.
Uni is just preparing the students for the realities of the real world =[
Re: Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
#6"Extreme Heat" seems to be 37-40 degrees Celsius which is bafflingly mundane to me as an Australian who grew up in rural New South Wales. We'd pack 30 kids and a teacher into an un-airconditioned classroom with just a ceiling fan and the windows open in that temperature.
I imagine the buildings there just aren't built to support that heat plus the body height of hundreds or thousands of attendees?
Re: Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
#7"Extreme Heat" seems to be 37-40 degrees Celsius which is bafflingly mundane to me as an Australian who grew up in rural New South Wales. We'd pack 30 kids and a teacher into an un-airconditioned classroom with just a ceiling fan and the windows open in that temperature. I imagine the buildings there just aren't built to support that heat plus the body height of hundreds or thousands of attendees?
the British are notoriously sensitive to heat. They'll call 30 Celsius weather a heat wave.
Re: Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
#8At first I thought it was just virtue signaling. But no, its the venue. >Venue: LSE Shaw Library, Houghton St, Old Building, London https://halls.lse.ac.uk/story/25006031/deal-with-the-uk-weat... > LSE halls (like most houses in the country) don't have air conditioning, it can be quite suffocating. I blame LSE. Uni should provide safe and comfortable environment for students.
> At first I thought it was just virtue signaling.
Maybe examine the reflex to dismiss out of hand without evidence?
Re: Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
#9Europeans don’t get scolded enough for their resistance to air conditioning. In terms of accounting for preventable deaths, Greece has 2x more heat-related deaths per capita annually than Mississippi has gun deaths.
By comparison, the worst US state for heat related deaths, Nevada - a literal desert - has >10x fewer deaths per capita than Greece.
Re: Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
#10Reminds me of "dermatology convention in Hawaii": https://youtube.com/shorts/1uRxIe1dXGU
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