National Links: The Politics of Air Conditioning
Remember when air conditioning was a luxury for the well off? Few people under 50 do, in the climate-controlled United States. Is our current comfort compromising our future’s heat index?
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Chart of the Day: Share of New Homes with Central Air Conditioning, 1970 – Present
The world is getting hotter, so central air-conditioning is becoming standard — but that pressures our electrical grid, and so the world keeps getting hotter.