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As Europe Sweats, Some Politicians Talk of Air-Conditioning, Not Climate Action (www.nytimes.com)
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Heat-related deaths and disruptions to daily life are forcing politicians to reckon, in different ways, with a rapidly warming planet.

Unfortunately, adaptation on its on isn't doable. It takes ending the use of fossil fuels, which are the main cause of the warming, to make adaptation affordable.

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it happens in the air too, it's just more studied in waterways. It's also known as heat pollution or thermal discharge.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114406

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359431108001725?via=ihub

AC moves heat, usually from indoors to somewhere outside a wall.

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