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The legacy of Europe’s heat waves will be more air conditioning. That’s a problem.

The legacy of Europe’s heat waves will be more air conditioning. That’s a problem.

Climate change is making extreme heat the norm across more of the world, increasing the need for adaptation. But in the case of AC, some experts are concerned about how to balance that need with the harms the solutions can cause. Global AC sales more than tripled between 1990 and 2016, according to a 2018 […]

Climate change is making India’s brutal heat waves worse

Climate change is making India’s brutal heat waves worse

The problem is also widespread across the country, affecting not only the typical hot spots in the northwest and southeast but also regions that aren’t used to seeing so much extreme heat, Mondal says. And the effects are even more stark because of a lack of rainfall so far this season. “It’s part of a […]