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  • So calling for the conference and cancelling it raises awareness of extreme heat? Well played
    by kiriberty
  • It's extreme heat because there's a strong moral opposition and infrastructure immaturity when it comes to air conditioning. Look no further than France where there's even air conditioning in trains but they keep it borderline off, and where nursing homes and hospitals don't have A/C.

    It's a mix of cheapness, climate change as things got hotter, and the unfortunate influence of Green types who believe in suffering.

    by mancerayder
  • Sitting here in central London on the day of the conference it seems a bit wimpy to me. Max today is 34C which is hot but not life threatening. Some trains may be delayed but they do that all the time. I assume the LSE library is aircon. Most such buildings are these days.

    You'd think a bit of heat would be a bonus given the topic.

    by tim333
  • Europeans don’t get scolded enough for their resistance to air conditioning. In terms of accounting for preventable deaths, Greece has 2x more heat-related deaths per capita annually than Mississippi has gun deaths.

    By comparison, the worst US state for heat related deaths, Nevada - a literal desert - has >10x fewer deaths per capita than Greece.

    by lwansbrough
  • Reminds me of "dermatology convention in Hawaii": https://youtube.com/shorts/1uRxIe1dXGU
    by zaik
  • The dowside of hosting your conference in exquisitly beautifull old locations is that they have no airco.

    While well managed traditional cooling management can keep them pleasant enough, this would require light programme adaptations, basically shifting to starting early morning - noon, covering the glass dome, and night ventilation, but that seems to be more insurmountable than cancelling.

    Apparently the LSE does have airco spaces, but these aren't as inspirationally nice it seems.

    by PeterStuer
  • > Hosted in collaboration with the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance.

    Their climate resilience seems low.

    > The event will finish with a fire side chat

    Is this a prank?

    by delichon
  • "Extreme Heat" seems to be 37-40 degrees Celsius which is bafflingly mundane to me as an Australian who grew up in rural New South Wales. We'd pack 30 kids and a teacher into an un-airconditioned classroom with just a ceiling fan and the windows open in that temperature.

    I imagine the buildings there just aren't built to support that heat plus the body height of hundreds or thousands of attendees?

    by shitloadofbooks

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