I wonder if the same “Experts” have given up their own use of AC?
Keeping cool saves thousands of lives yearly, but at a cost of worsening global warming, experts say
(the original headline was “Experts say air conditioning saves many lives, but worsens climate change…”)
Cooling from air conditioning saves lives — more than 5,000 a year in the United States alone — but it also heats up the planet and taxes our electrical grid, scientists say.
As the world warms, heat waves strike nearly every continent and United Nations officials estimate that about half a million people die a year from heat, air conditioning is needed and being used more than ever. A study in Nature Health reported Monday that air conditioning saved nearly 58,000 lives between 2010 and 2020 in the U.S. Air conditioning use is skyrocketing around the world, with electricity demand from cooling expected to triple, according to the International Energy Agency and the United Nations Environment Programme.
It’s also more of a problem than ever. Because most of the electricity for cooling comes from the burning of fossil fuels, the U.N. projects the amount of heat-trapping gas spewed into the atmosphere from air conditioning use to rise from 4.5 billion to 7.2 billion tons in the next 25 years or so. That 7.2 billion tons is almost as much as the carbon pollution from the United States and Europe now.
Well, let us build nuclear power plants. Even Michael Mann and some other leading climahysterics are in favor of them. We can have Gen 6 and mini-nuclear plants, and then this would be no problem, at least according to climate cult dogma about CO2.
But, until the cult has reasonable solutions, they can f*** right off.
Read: “Experts Say” AC Saves Lives But Is Also Killing The Planet »
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