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I always find it sad and yet oddly amusing that some people get defensive when someone gives them information that might give them pause.
Because everything that can be associated to being "bad" even without true evidence but is otherwise pleasing is under attack normally by libs. And the real kicker is, it is a scheme to raise or create a tax, not to really save anything.
That is exactly my point. Obviously, you are not and therin lies the difference between someone that considers and contemplates information that they are given and those that do not have the capacity to.
I think air conditioning has had an incredible impact on community cohesiveness. In the early evening, my family is almost always outside during the summer, while we wait for the house to cool down. We love to putter around the yard and greet neighbors. I think it's a shame when people come home from work and immediately retreat to an air-conditioned family room to watch TV until it's time to go to bed.
Why does anyone in AZ, NM or CO need an A/C when they could use a swamp cooler? It is cheaper to run, easy to fix and costs less. There is a need for A/C, but there is no need for homes to be 68 degrees inside in the summer and offices to be so cold you need a sweater when it is 95 outside.
I live quite happily in the Front Range of Colorado without artificial cooling of any type. A whole house fan and ceiling fans work wonders in this climate!
The problem posted, the emission of a zillion tons of CO2 attributable to AC, is incorrect. The CO2 comes from burning fossil fuels to generate the electricity to power the AC. If this AC was generated by environmentally benign nuclear power then there would be no negative environmental effects attributed to Air Conditioning.
Today the temperature at 6:30 AM in downtown Boston was 85 deg F. This afternoon it is likely to be over 100 deg F. If my office was not air conditioned not only would the staff fail to be productive the computers would fail as well.
If giving up air conditioning isn't an option, why not cut back on it? Does it REALLY need to be 72 degrees or lower? Sweaters and long johns are supposed to be for winter, not summer. I can't believe people think that cooling to only 78 degrees is draconian. I grew up in the Chicago area thinking that was normal. And this was in the "greedy and wasteful" 1980s.
The human body does have the ability to adapt. I live in Minnesota and only cool to 81 degrees. Somebody living in Phoenix, Las Vegas, Dallas, etc. should be much better adapted to the heat than I am and can probably handle an indoor temperature in the mid-80s.
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