If you’re planning for the future at all then I believe the answer is yes. When the average temperature rises by 1-2 degrees that doesn’t really mean it’s 1-2 degrees hotter year round. It means the extremes become more extreme.
I read an article the other day about Eurostar upgrading the spec for trains they ordered to requiring the AC to work up to 55 degrees. That is exactly the kind of planning we need to do. We can’t afford to say “I can deal with hot summers as they are now and therefore we don’t need AC”.
Where I live we regularly get near 40 in spring and summer now, and while that’s a lot more than what we used to see during my childhood in the 80ies and 90ies, it’s temperatures that can be made survivable with other means. But even so, and even though AC is an option, people die. Germany had 5100 deaths from heat this June. That’s nearly twice the yearly number from recent years. It’s not going to get better.
As a healthy person, I have lived with 52 degrees without AC and that was not much of a problem. It may be something needed for elderly and young kids, but I do not see the point of widespread application throughout Europe.
If you’re planning for the future at all then I believe the answer is yes. When the average temperature rises by 1-2 degrees that doesn’t really mean it’s 1-2 degrees hotter year round. It means the extremes become more extreme.
I read an article the other day about Eurostar upgrading the spec for trains they ordered to requiring the AC to work up to 55 degrees. That is exactly the kind of planning we need to do. We can’t afford to say “I can deal with hot summers as they are now and therefore we don’t need AC”.
Where I live we regularly get near 40 in spring and summer now, and while that’s a lot more than what we used to see during my childhood in the 80ies and 90ies, it’s temperatures that can be made survivable with other means. But even so, and even though AC is an option, people die. Germany had 5100 deaths from heat this June. That’s nearly twice the yearly number from recent years. It’s not going to get better.
As a healthy person, I have lived with 52 degrees without AC and that was not much of a problem. It may be something needed for elderly and young kids, but I do not see the point of widespread application throughout Europe.
In most cases I deem it as a useless luxury.
Brainded living in India telling Eu no point in AC for people living there
I live in Europe.