UK orders homeowners to remove AC units during heatwave due to concerns about climate change

[Fishrrman]

https://notthebee.com/article/uk-orders-homeowners-to-remove-ac-units-during-heatwave-due-to-concerns-about-climate-change-

UK orders homeowners to remove AC units during heatwave due to concerns about climate change
Jun 28, 2026

Nice to see the UK has its priorities right.

Britons have been ordered to remove air conditioning from their homes - despite the country baking in up to 40C heat this week - under a fresh Net Zero crackdown.

Planning officials at councils have told residents to take down their cooling units over concerns about carbon dioxide emissions.

They say AC, despite the heat, should serve only as a 'last resort'.

But not enough of a "last resort" to, you know, keep you from roasting to death, apparently.

Instead, authorities ordered citizens to exhaust all other forms of avoiding heat stroke.

The crackdown comes from building regulations, which demand 'active cooling' is used only after all 'passive cooling' methods, like opening windows or running fans, have been exhausted.

Yeah, open up those windows and use fans to circulate the hot air throughout your home. That'll be more comfortable.

Enforcement has been even more stringent in London:

One Londoner received orders to 'permanently remove' two cooling units from the rear of their property, The Telegraph revealed.

Camden Council's planning inspectors determined there was 'no justification' for the equipment, ruling it breached the authority's 'cooling hierarchy' policy.

During an appeal, the homeowner was advised to open windows and balcony doors in their first-floor flat to achieve ventilation 'by natural means'.

When the resident raised security concerns in the crime-addled capital, inspectors dismissed these, arguing the risk was not 'as great as those associated with ground floor windows' and suggesting windows could remain closed overnight.

So if you live on the ground floor, you get to choose between dying of heat or letting criminal migrants break into your home to kill you.

And if you decide to live like a civilized chap and install an air conditioner?

Be prepared to face the consequences.

More at URL above...

[rangerrebew]

 
 
‘It’s like feudalism’: EU HQ shuts off air conditioning during heatwave– but only for floors 1-7, where people of lower rank work
By Marc Morano
June 27, 2026
10:47 am

https://www.climatedepot.com/2026/06/27/its-like-feudalism-eu-hq-shuts-off-air-conditioning-during-heatwave-but-only-for-floors-1-7-where-people-of-lower-rank-work/

[rangerrebew]

How magnanimous of the elites to sacrifice their comfort for the lower serfs!  Since cold air settles, they were obviously only thinking of the people below to provide them access to AC.  I'll bet they opened office doors and stairway doors to ensure that cold air got to the underlines.

[Free Vulcan]

Globalism is feudalism with lipstick.

[Cyber Liberty]

Try that shit around here and see what happens to you. We get > 115F all the time here.

[Timber Rattler]

I honestly don't know how, or why, the average working-class Brit bloke puts up with this ridiculous nonsense from their councils, police, and MPs.  They seem to just grumble about it for a bit, and then in the end, meekly comply and "get on with it, choosing to accept the indignities as a fact of modern living instead doing anything about it.

[roamer_1]

40C is like 105F... It gets THAT hot in England? Move on over @Cyber Liberty... England is in da house.

[Cyber Liberty]

40C is like 105F... It gets THAT hot in England? Move on over @Cyber Liberty... England is in da house.

It gets well over 110 every damned day here right now.  We'll see 120 at least once. This is the Mojave desert, home of Death Valley.

[MeganC]

It gets well over 110 every damned day here right now.  We'll see 120 at least once. This is the Mojave desert, home of Death Valley.

Wasn't it 2025 where there were three days in a row of 127F in Palm Springs? 

[Cyber Liberty]

Wasn't it 2025 where there were three days in a row of 127F in Palm Springs? 

Probably

[bigheadfred]

It's been mid sixties highs here the last few days.

[roamer_1]

It gets well over 110 every damned day here right now.  We'll see 120 at least once. This is the Mojave desert, home of Death Valley.

That'd be a fair indication to get on outta there and move to where the mountains have trees and clear water, instead of cactuses (cacti?)and vultures... Jussayin 

[roamer_1]

It's been mid sixties highs here the last few days.

... And raining to beat the band.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

It gets well over 110 every damned day here right now.  We'll see 120 at least once. This is the Mojave desert, home of Death Valley.

I'd die... i'd drop dead. Straight up.

[Smokin Joe]

... And raining to beat the band.

Yeah, turns out I did get the garden in in time.

[roamer_1]

Giggles says it's bullcrap, btw. England averages 70's F in the summer and a heat wave would be 98F. Maybe they have a record somewhere over there of 40c, but it ain't anywhere near common.

[roamer_1]

Yeah, turns out I did get the garden in in time.

Blame my bro... He's steaming through SODAK right now with his whole fam damily and both his golden retrievers in a diesel Exploder.

He has a big in with God. He prolly prayed for cool weather for his passage and beautiful weather while he's out here for the 4th.... And that's about what to expect.

[roamer_1]

That's my bro, btw... Not me.
I pray like that and God would giggle...
And it'd be all blizzards  and grizzly bears
and me pitchin a fit and kickin things all the way home.

God's funny that way. Oh, hah-ha. 

[Cyber Liberty]

I'd die... i'd drop dead. Straight up.

We have A/C, and stay inside most of the day....

[MeganC]

We have A/C, and stay inside most of the day....

I had to be in poems springs a couple of years ago , and it was amazing. Beautiful in the morning until about eleven. Then after three , the city was in the shade , and that was kind of nice.

[Wingnut]

I had to be in poems springs a couple of years ago , and it was amazing.

You are very well versed.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

We have A/C, and stay inside most of the day....

Not a fun existence.

I'm not being snarky, I'm the same way from January 'til June. It's not fun.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Dying from the heat is a component of the Global Climate Change plan to depopulate the Earth of humans ... exept for the VIP's of course ... after all, they are more equal than the rest of us.

Why stop at air conditioning?  What about refrigeration - that's air conditioning on steroids?  If we eat farm-to-table fresh foods or Soylent Green, what do we need refrigeration for?

What about hospitals?  The spew a lot of net carbon into the atmostphere powering all those machines and instruments that keep people alive.

Call be an absolutist, but doesn't the Zero in Net-Zero have any meaning?  Or, is Net-Zero a social and economic re-gineering farce?