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hedora · 2024-10-16T14:46:28 1729089988

If you go this route, design for the climate twenty years from now, not for twenty years ago.

(Speaking from experience—our house is an oven in the spring and fall because those seasons are 20F hotter than we assumed when designing the house.)

happyopossum · 2024-10-16T15:06:41 1729091201

> are 20F hotter than we assumed when designing the house

Then you designed a house for a climate that never existed. There is nowhere on earth that is 20F warmer than it was 200 years ago, let alone 20.

hedora · 2024-10-16T17:37:20 1729100240

Peak temperatures have gone up that much for the microclimate our house is in.

Put another way, air conditioning used to be unnecessary in Silicon Valley. Now we have > 100F days pretty much every year.

amluto · 2024-10-16T18:44:51 1729104291

I'm dubious. If you pick the right threshold, you will surely find that the frequency of days above that threshold is massively increased. But that doesn't imply that the temperature is up 20F.

I certainly remember plenty of days in the mid-to-high-nineties in Silicon Valley 20 years ago.