Europe has been slow to adopt air conditioning—but now the continent faces back-to-back heatwaves.
“If you increase your energy usage and your grid is still reliant, even partially, on fossil fuels, then that’s going to increase your total emissions,” says Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, “That’s going to make climate change worse. It’s a little bit of a feedback loop.”view. AC will only become more necessary as the climate warms.
Then, people can keep their homes and businesses at a comfortable temperature.“AC is something we need. There are a lot of places in the US. and around the world where if you didn’t have air conditioning there would be ghost towns,” Dessler says. He says large parts of Texas, where he lives, need air conditioning to remain habitable.people to reduce energy use during a heat wave to protect the grid can cause real problems for residents.
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