OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #238, JULY 7, 2025.

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #238, JULY 7, 2025.    Compiled by Dick Bennett

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Dick.   Turn Off Your AC?

 

   Wednesday, May 28, 2025 

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 Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

[US Net Zero in 45 years?  --D]

Dear Friends,
We are pleased to announce the publication of a new article, “Understanding the policy features that affect Indians' support for India's 2070 net-zero goal” in the journal Climatic Change. . . .  
 Overall, our results tell a clear story: Indians strongly support India’s 2070 net-zero goal, and policies that address pollution, increase job security, and help India adapt to the changing climate increase this support.  The full article with many other results is available here to those with a subscription to Climatic Change. If you would like to request a copy of the published paper, please send an email to climatechange@yale.edu with the subject line: Request India 2070 net-zero paper. Or, a public version is available here.

 

 

BEAT THE HEAT WITHOUT FOSSIL FUELS by Dick Bennett
Six actions:
1. Plant trees both canopy and mid-level (e.g. oaks and redbuds) on western and southern sides (shrubs too) of your building.  (And let your grass grow.)
2,  Shade or canopy all windows west and south. (Bring shades inside each fall to last longer.)   
3.  Open all windows during nights to catch the cool, close before temp. rises.
4.  Open all indoor blinds or curtains nights, close during day.
5.  Set ceiling fans to rotate counter-clockwise to push air down to your skin (it doesn’t cool the air).
6.  If you have one: Turn on attic fan when extra hot. 
These steps have worked for me for 45 years, with these 3 caveats: I live mainly in the basement floor of a hillside 3-story house; I live in the Ozark Mts.; and the climate is warming! –Dick   (What’s your experience for beating the heat without ac?  Afternoon cocktails at the pub?)