tim robinson @tim12rob
urbanist, recovering architect. child of the oil crisis, parent raising low carbon kids. Friding. all views my own. auckland Joined March 2015-
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I’ve been summoned once again to write about Europe and AC adoption. I have a humble proposal: What if the primary explanation of NW Europe’s slower pace of AC adoption isn’t their regulatory environment or their cultural relationship to suffering, but … their windows?
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This isn’t true. It builds on a report by Create Streets which is inaccurate in how it compares embodied carbon of brick and other buildings. A thread… 🧵
How badly-designed 'green' rules are discouraging builders from using bricks. Builders are increasingly told to worry about 'embedded carbon' - the lifetime carbon impact of a new-build. Yet, there's a remarkable assumption used in these life-cycle assessments: that brick
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Lots of people comparing climate change to "rain" or to other natural weather patterns. It might look as an innocent analogy, but at its core, that's climate denial.
Here's the air conditioning debate. America: It's raining, take an umbrella Europeans: There are unintended consequences of taking an umbrella. If we refuse to and so does China and the rest of the world, maybe it won't rain so much in 50 years. I'm going to die now.
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kinda suspect that the european AC discourse is so disciplined in never mentioning climate change
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Lots of Boomers seem to be remembering the summer of 1976 with rose tinted spectacles, & think that they ‘just got in with it’ Let’s have a look at what the newspapers of the day had to say in 1976…. 🧵
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Europe delayed the transition to EVs to protect jobs in the old industry. Now, China leads the world in EVs and Europe's factories are closing. YOLO, I suppose.
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We can’t A/C Greenland to prevent AMOC collapse. We can’t A/C crops to prevent global famine. We can’t A/C fragile and vital ecosystems to prevent them from collapsing from heat stress. We have to bring down ‘global’ temperatures. Not just in the tiny rooms we live in!
Perimeter blocks FTW
The tapas wasn’t quite as good but North Shields used to look like this
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what about cities where we all toot around in sick-ass golf carts
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A Map without New Zealand, despite New Zealand being ranked number 2 on the list! Oh and there seems to be an interesting omission... More on the rankings: brilliantmaps.com/2024-democracy…
Graphs say it all. x.com/i/status/20701…
Good morning with good news: EV sales in Europe as well as China's global & Southeast Asian EV exports skyrocket in May! BEV sales jump 39% in Europe in May to 24% share, while PHEV grew 10%. China's global EV exports rose 49% in May to record high. cleantechnica.com/2026/06/24/eur…
Ahem. x.com/i/status/20701…
Notable EV markets so far in 2026 1 Laos: EV and hybrid car sales in Laos at 36% share. From 1 June, total suspension of all petrol and diesel vehicle imports, taking EVs to 100% for the rest of the year 2 Norway: BEV share at 98.6% in April 3 Denmark: BEV share for private cars
Spoiler: its not the excuse the article claims (falling EV sales....!). Auto companies just cannot see the Kodak moment that is upon them.
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Projections of carbon capture capacity versus projections of solar power production
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NEW ANALYSIS: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time What's that you say? Something something demand, something something ZEV mandate? Take a look at the data: carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-sa…
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Climate change and the AC debate
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Want to improve the housing crisis and keep people cool? Build a load of homes like this!
España: Bloque de viviendas en Gràcia - Calderón-Folch Studio noticiasarquitectura.info/espana-bloque-…
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Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.
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Modern urban planning as a discipline is obsessed with value-destroying ideas about setbacks, scale, massing, etc that are totally at odds with what popular — crowded places where space is at a premium — urban neighborhoods are actually like. slowboring.com/p/against-urba…
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