Air Conditioning is a big contributor to Global Warming
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/air-conditioning-one-greatest-inventions-133029574.html
A/C is what makes the South tolerable to live in. It sounds like the thing to do is turn our A/C up or off for the benefit of the planet. Can't see obese America going for that.
The entire city of New Orleans is without power now.
I’ll stop blasting my AC in August in NC when gas guzzlers are banned.
Interesting read. Of course, 100 years ago it wasn’t as hot as it is now because air conditioning and other producers of greenhouse gas wasn’t as prevalent.
I definitely think businesses should commit to turning up the AC. I keep my house at 78 during the day and 81 at night. Fans on all the time. We are fine. But plenty of businesses blast the AC in the summer. They overcompensate.
Means is one reason. Another is traffic -- read many stories of it taking 24 hours on the road to get to Houston, which is normally like a 6 hour drive with stops. People thinking they can wait and miss out on all that.
I'll stop blasting it when China and India do.
Why should they take the lead?
without them, you are completely ineffective
without them, you are completely ineffective
What I'm saying is that if everyone sits around saying "we won't move until they do" then no one moves at all. There are huge market advantages to making energy transitions. Are there short-term hurdles? Sure, look at Europe. But we're also largely energy independent on coal and gas so no one can threaten that part, whereas they are not. We are not energy independent on oil, which is why Ford is opening huge new EV plants.
*when*everyone sits around saying "we won't move until they do" then no one moves at all.
Game theory aside, I, for one, think the problem of climate change is so existential that “you” should do everything you can regardless of what other people/countries are or are not doing.
What I'm saying is that if everyone sits around saying "we won't move until they do" then no one moves at all. There are huge market advantages to making energy transitions. Are there short-term hurdles? Sure, look at Europe. But we're also largely energy independent on coal and gas so no one can threaten that part, whereas they are not. We are not energy independent on oil, which is why Ford is opening huge new EV plants.
The sooner we listen to the scientists and convert to nuclear energy, the better. Nothing stopping us but dumb people. If we need to erect some solar and wind farms as window dressing to pacify the dumbs, fine by me.
Nuclear + electric car conversion (inevitable) would also make us permanently energy independent on oil.