Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Air conditioning systems may give short term relief but they are increasing emissions and can push up nighttime temperatures by 1-1.5 degrees. The best air conditioning systems are Trees Trees can make it feel up to 14 degrees cooler Mass planting of Trees is needed in cities across the world now 109912241
Ville Lundberg @villelundberg.eurosky.social · 09/07/20262nd law of thermodynamics called, they want their money back 020
Bwins @ben-wins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Increased emissions from AC units don't happen if the electricity running them is from renewables. Asking people to voluntarily suffer the heat before reducing system-wide emmisions is a losing strategy. 000
Nyx [100,1] @nyx85.neocities.org · 09/07/2026No profit in trees, unless you are cutting them down. Bastards. 010
Justa gymbro 🇦🇺 @justagymbro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026You used AI slop here. Please don’t speak about your concern for the environment 000
Pelican @pelicanmerchant.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Sure. But they would need to be planted on the buildings roof and perimeter. You'd still need to figure out a way to remove the heat soaked up by the thermal mass of the building and all the little creatures inside generating heat. Those boxes could be powered by solar or hydro or nuclear. 040
Fragwits 🇳🇱 @fragwits.bsky.social · 09/07/2026and how do you plan to plant trees on apartment balconies.. 110
Coffeeanyone @coffeeanyone.bsky.social · 10/07/2026You win stupid post of the day There are a lot other issues causing temperatures and you pick air conditioning 🙄 000
Sky 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 - Won't Interact Without Alt Text! @skyyks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Did you know that you can set up a reminder to add alt text? Alt text helps vision impaired posters understand images. Go to Settings, then Accessibility, and make sure "Require alt text before posting" is toggled on - this will prompt you each time you add an image to your post! 110
Calvin Chann @calc88.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I always wondered whether in places like Hong Kong, the air conditioning units added to the heat outside to keep it cool inside. 010
🇺🇸 Retro Pixel 🇬🇧 @retro-pixel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026lol I'll take an AC or fan over sitting by a tree. as far as emissions go, a volcano spews more crap out than every car on earth running for years. 010
Nici @nici17.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Billionaires can invest in that it will be in their best interest and for that people and creatures of this planet. 000
Dad Bod E @dadbode.bsky.social · 10/07/2026As soon as I hear that all the data centers have been shut down, I'll consider it. 000
CLM @andnowyouredrunk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Very Bladerunner Which is not a good a pleasant vision of the future for anyone watching 000
isinqueens.bsky.social @isinqueens.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Agreed. And I have a big one in my (tiny) backyard. However, even my big tree does not reach most of the floors and that building... Ideas on how the majority of those tenants are to survive the heat? 150
Elizabeth Pearce @elizabethpearce.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Trying to get the Democrats, or Republicans for that matter, on city councils and county commissions to care about unnecessary deforestation by developers is a fruitless task. 000
Renewable hope 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱☮️🇵🇸🏳️🌈 @stringofnumbers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Hey everyone, get aircon. There is so much heating already guaranteed to happen that what are currently heatwaves are going to be normal. When you power aircon with renewables the energy consumption doesn’t matter. Just do yourself a favour and get aircon 010
hazdaz.bsky.social @hazdaz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This is why regular folks hate liberals. Folks barely make enough to survive & all they want is a little cold air when they get home from their miserable jobs. Yet out-of-touch liberals say NO, you should plant a tree instead, as if that's a feasible solution for anyone in this apartment complex. 010
Decimal Society @decimal-society.bsky.social · 09/07/2026It's not either or. In many places, for many people, it has become life or death. There are no "but"s with AC. 040
dharma-not-dogma.bsky.social @dharma-not-dogma.bsky.social · 09/07/2026 this gives me a serious case of Trypophobia. 😂 000
Temu Bob Ross @ososalsosal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Are we really doing this debate here still? Yes, plant the trees. Of course! Plant all of the trees! But if you will literally die without turning on the AC, then turn on the sodding AC! 100
Pandora @pandora.novaresear.ch · 09/07/2026A regular person can install an AC and get immediate relief. An average person cannot effect enough change to plant enough trees to sufficiently affect the temperature quickly enough. Realistically: We need to do both. Install AC to survive right now and plant trees to survive later. 110
No Wingnuts Allowed @idyll-dream2.bsky.social · 09/07/2026They'd have to be pretty tall trees to shade this apartment building. 7640
NotCIAreally @stoplossmaxwin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Green Roofs help www.greenroofs.org/about-green-...greenroofs.orgAbout Green Roofs — Green Roofs for Healthy CitiesAbout Green Roofs 110
Bravo arts/Buffaloe Soldier @bravoechonone.bsky.social · 09/07/2026plus solar and wind powered electrification 000
Chris Williams @gaffa.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Those are mini-split heat pumps ,which shift heat from indoors to outdoors, and are three times as efficient as regular air conditioning. 000
Chris Williams @gaffa.bsky.social · 09/07/2026And where are the trees that can cool the seven story building? It might take a little while to grow a sequoia. 010
Olivia Quinn @oliviaquinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I get you and trees are amazing and we need them but we can’t grow trees in our flats and houseplants we can grow aren’t big enough to be trees. 150
OCB1640 @ocb1640.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I took part in a PhD study comparing comfort level on a concrete parking in full summer sun v under a mature tree canopy. 14oC surface temperature difference, with higher humidity under canopy. Plant trees in every city street NOW. 0141
Sabaah Jauhar-Rizvi @austenlied.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Green roofs, ivy and wisteria on the sides of buildings… 010
Davel27 🏴 @davel27.bsky.social · 09/07/2026There's a tree outside my window and I'm still sweating more than a Fritzel in a basement 110
Manuel Royal @manuel-royal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Also, we don't need skyscrapers. There are tons of ways to improve cities. 000
MaskedWannabeFarmer @maskedfarmer.eurosky.social · 09/07/2026Heat pumps are the future and air conditioning is nothing else. Also cheap electricity will be there in the summer thanks to Solar Cells 020
Somebody Sometimes an AI @bobhooker.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I am on medication that make it hard for my body to regulate body heat, somebody giving me a tree won't save my life 070
PraiseTheSun🌅 @praisethe-sun.bsky.social · 09/07/2026lmao until heat pumps are cheap enough we are using AC. If you don't like it, get your corporate overlords to stop creating the majority of the world's carbon emissions for their own profit. 100
Xiggy Fox @xiggyfox.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Remembering that the abundance of trees, including an especially Seattle having a bunch of them along I-5 while bring one of the few spots not currently suffering a heatwave... Yeah we should absolutely pepper society with more trees holy crap And of have robust public transit 010
Nigel Ó Ceallacháin @nigelcallaghan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Trees are good. Tower blocks in cities will always be a different case to houses in the countryside. But air-to-air heat pumps are (I believe) a lot cheaper to run than traditional aircon systems. Provided they run on solar (readily available when aircon is needed) they won't destroy the planet. 020
Valentenya the climate policy strategy cat 🍉 🐈⬛ @valentenya.bsky.social · 09/07/2026People die in heatwaves. Mostly poor people. This is a hill for the privileged to die on; check yours. 100
redditrefugee.bsky.social @redditrefugee.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Not disagreeing but there are systems that use solar power directly from the solar panel to the AC unit for cooling. Not applicable in all locations but using the power of the sun to move heat from the indoors to the outdoors makes real sense to me. 010
Mare @maread.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I wish. But I think AC is one of the best things invented. If you lived in the Bronx/-concrete, packed apt high rises, few trees, had older folks in family, worked in an office… You can see where a large church had land. Massive amounts of trees surrounded by none. Our cooling centers are packed. 040
Oleai @oleai.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Dang that's crazy. I have like 4 palm trees right outside my window and it does nothing about the 110degree weather outside or the 95 in my room. I think my trees are broken? Brother you have lost the plot. Fight Data Centers if you want to conserve. AC is man's triumph over nature. 010
skrimblo @plutopos.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I agree, but there are many bigger and more superfluous sources of emissions than air conditioning, and those should be addressed first. Example: AI datacenters, private jets 010
akai55555555.bsky.social @akai55555555.bsky.social · 10/07/20261.5 degrees? That's it? That's what people are grandstanding about? FFS people. 100
Ken Wright @ken-wright.bsky.social · 09/07/2026More green spaces in cities will help with greenhouse effects. However, current urban architecture is not suited to hosting stacked plants without creating hostile environments for the people living there. Let's try to come up with feasible solutions instead of ecopunk sci-fi solutions, k? 010
Robochubby @robochubby.bsky.social · 09/07/2026That's a good argument for living in a tree house. 010
chasinyou.bsky.social @chasinyou.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Let’s be real, Trees aren’t growing as tall as them buildings in China 😂😂 100
Jim Garcia @ibjimmyg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Just installed 2 mini splits and these to power them 000
David Rosicke @drosickesho.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Geothermal Heat Pumps are way better in any environment - if there is enough space/land for wells. The up front cost is always a factor though. Light colored buildings and roofs, trees, solar panel canopies, insulation between floors... the list is long. 010
HighlandWarrior @highlandwarrior.bsky.social · 09/07/2026You know... it only takes one fabricated picture to destroy your credibility and become permanantly labeled as click bait not to mention that using A.I. contributes to it's propagation and I think we've clearly established that it's production is bad for the environment. 000
Emotional support mutt @angelicario.bsky.social · 09/07/2026We can keep the AC units get rid of data centres 100
"I was being ironical." @uxchampion.bsky.social · 09/07/2026It's the world's largest piece of three-dimensional, anti-environmental, kinetic sculpture. 😬 000
Don Dickinson @dondickinson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Trees and proper insulation in older buildings. 001
"The Epstein Ballroom" at 1600 Brownshirt Ave @tourswag.bsky.social · 09/07/2026City of Phoenix keeps telling us this While increasing ( again) rates for water 5 of my trees died last summer, I have a couple more on the way out. Without water, trees and shade the soil fails to support organisms and will become a hydrophobic* sterile dust * looses ability to absorb water 000
Oliver Bradley @olibradley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026You'd red pretty big trees to cool that tower block, wouldn't you? You prob need both? 120
Fiber for Fun @fiber4fun.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Or we could properly blame corporations and data centers rather than Joe’s window unit that makes his meager quality of life better. 150
Gnoleene @gnoleene.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I worked over 30 years in a glass plant in Texas. I'll be darned if I'll die from heat exhaustion in my elderly years. 100
Gnoleene @gnoleene.bsky.social · 09/07/2026We need better tech to cool ourselves then. Get after it. 000
Gxro6883 @gxro6883.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The Chinese spray a mist of air into their cities to keep them cool. Must cheaper than ac and no heat generated 000
Leg Spinner🏏 @judeet44.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Not as simple a solution as you might think.....tcnv.linkHeatwaves: why British trees are shedding branches and dyingBritish trees struggle to survive as temperatures get higher, and many die. 032
Josh Hartke @joshhartke.bsky.social · 09/07/2026It is a public health survival tool. We need clean energy for it. 000
foolwatcher2025.bsky.social @foolwatcher2025.bsky.social · 09/07/2026So can concrete, and asphalt etc they radiate it magnifying the actual temperature but the Republicans don't want to talk about their destructive activities so they ignore the facts 011
General Curtis LeMayfield, Esq. @curtis-lemayfield.bsky.social · 09/07/2026More trees AND solar powered a/c units. Fuck punishing people for trying to live. Punish corporations for lobbying against 'expensive' environmental and pollution regulations. Punish the 1% for their private jets. Remember : This is the coolest summer of the rest of your life. 070
BeanieCLE1 @jennicle1.bsky.social · 09/07/2026East less meat, too! For example, the number one cause of Amazon Forest destruction is due to cattle raising. This awful administration in the US is also allowing cattle to graze on OUR public land. Over 60% of all crops grown are to feed animals we then kill to eat. It's unsustainable. #vegan 165
sea-goat.bsky.social @sea-goat.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Is that an AI picture ? ( if not I apologise , but give a location) .. If you think A/C increase the temp , wait till you meet AI datacentres . .. Agree Trees Not Concrete. 4282
dream-king.bsky.social @dream-king.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Can’t disagree, tho that doesn’t do much for skyscraper apartment buildings 010
Buddy Bud @buddybud.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I’ve always thought this but there are watering issues, usage, and costs and sadly, American developers and our government never want any fiscal impact even if it’s beneficial. 000
Josemi @josemirm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Go tell people living in places where it's sometimes over 43°C (110°F) outside, like where I live, to not use the A/C. Every summer, a lot of people die here in Spain due to heat, and in the past June, around 5000 died in Germany due to the heat wave. 1120
Speech And Debate @speechanddebate.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Trees and real plants. Fake grass isn't helping the environment either. 010
Pass The Seed @passtheseed.bsky.social · 09/07/2026In my personal opinion. All buildings need painted white as do asphalt streets. A simple color change like reflection pool makes a huge impact. Dark colors absorb UV light, bright white or silver(aluminum foil) reflect UV light. Keeping it color inside. Covering windows to reflect UV. Rock lawn=heat 120
nihilist-vibing.bsky.social @nihilist-vibing.bsky.social · 09/07/2026How many trees does someone need to cut and store in a large office building to make it about 21 C? 000
imissnormal.bsky.social @imissnormal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Powering during the day via solar can heavily mitigate 190
That weird moth thing @qurscu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026ACs run off of the concept of a heat pump, the heat inside your house came from your appliances or you, that heat will always find a way to equilibrium with the outside temperature, even if its slowly conducting through the walls and insulation. 100
inter2win.bsky.social @inter2win.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Good grief, the problem really isn’t with air conditioners, the real issue is that is an incredibly inefficient application of them 000
Dr. Kimm @drkimm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026i think this summer is showing that it is already too late for wonderful green cities in southern climes. we need to plan for northward migration and more simple living. 010
A not-so-social socialist @treeslaughing.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This blows my mind.. it seems we lost our ability for collective thinking. We have a massive climate breakdown and we will do what?? Install airconditioners?? 101
A huge, loud elk @ibewavy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026AC systems are not bad if you have good solar on your grid. They use power at exactly the same time that the sun provides it. 130
coolingjets.bsky.social @coolingjets.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I can vouch for that between our house which is surrounded by trees and walking to the main road where there are no trees.I walk it twice a day and I don't need a thermometer to tell the difference. 020
Yata Garasu @changemypitchup.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Oak Trees take 50 years to grow and we'll all be dead by then. 4billiondead.org4billiondead.org4 Billion Dead – Speaking the raw unspeakable truth. 260
Blue Seed Planter🦋🌊🩵🌵 @blueseedplanter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I am in Phoenix, Arizona & it is hot! I have my seeds, but MORINGA trees! Look them up!! I will be planting multiple of them as I need to increase my canopy. But they are some sort of-will sustain you in drought like no other-miracle plant! We should all grow them! Look it up! 🙏❤️👊🌵🌞🌴🌿🌿🌿 000
semperloquatius.bsky.social @semperloquatius.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Well, here's the conundrum: trees are also fuel for fires. 010
YHenryG 📚 💉 😷 @yhenryg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I notice that every time I go outside. In the shade of a tree it's at least 10 deg cooler than in the sun, and frequently there's a breeze under the trees 100
zenaut.bsky.social @zenaut.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Isn’t this more of an infrastructure issue? Surely there are more efficient ways of cooling besides hundreds of individual wall/window units? 010