When air conditioning is

"green" and a school has to close because the "green" air conditioning is not working then we have a problem. It is just one of many problems associated with the mad rush to "net zero" with a stream of absurd policies which simply do not work.

I do not deny the climate is changing. Climate has changed throughout history as we know it. Whether humans are solely responsible is something I very much doubt but they certainly contribute towards the problems. 

The Senior Cat was once appointed, along with Mum, to a two teacher school in a very remote part of this state. We four kittens tagged along behind because nothing else could be done about it. We spent two years there. At first we had no electricity and no running water.  There was certainly no air conditioning, not even in cars. Mum cooked on a wood burning stove and heated the washing water in a copper. Temperatures often rose well above 100'F and everyone just carried on.

Now those conditions would be considered completely unacceptable. I wonder what they would do about air conditioning? Would they  have solar panels on the roof? Would such things work with a 32v power plant?

We had similar situations in other places. We just got on with the day and drank a lot of rainwater - often cooled in hessian cooler bags on hanging from the back verandah. (Woe betide the person who let the bag empty and did not refill it.)

Here in the city people expect to have air conditioning. I actually have it here in the unit and we had it at the house. 

We also had a "natural" air conditioning system that worked very well. We grew "glory" vines along the western side of the house. In late spring every year the Senior Cat would place poles along the side of the house and train the vines to climb to the roof. (They did not require much work.) We would then have a natural green canopy along the side. It reduced the internal temperature of the house (along with excellent roof insulation) by at least ten degrees centigrade. Often we had not need to turn on the air conditioning. Add a patch of lawn at the front and heavy curtains and people often commented on how cool the house was on a hot day.

More people could do that sort of thing. It really did not take that much time but of course it is simply to flick a switch. Perhaps that is where the real problem lies?