Air conditioning is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th Century. It’s also killing the 21st

Yahoo News ^ | August 28, 2021 | By Danny Crichton

[eyeamok]

Fits pretty good with received ideas and pre-thought thoughts described here:

A MUST READ!

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3989839/posts

Last-Chance Letter to a CRT Teacher

[EEGator]

That’s how quite a significant number of old people die in Europe.

[SES1066]

Movie theaters through to the 1950s/60s had a placard prominently displayed; "Air Conditioned Inside!" Yep, this should bring back the attendance for Hollywood!

Note that the author of the book in this article apparently hearkens back to the heat-wave deaths of the 19th & 20th Centuries in these United States! The summer of 1936 was and IS the hottest and deadliest heatwave in US History. ~5,000 deaths, crop failures $1 Billion, the Dustbowl, lengthened the Great Depression, yet the CO2 levels were low? How does that work?

[Luke21]

When little Danny lives in a cave and eats beetles and dog dung, come talk to me.

[Lurkinanloomin]

CO2 is essential to life on earth.

CO2 is NOT a dangerous pollutant.

If you believe CO2 is a dangerous pollutant, STOP EXHALING IT!

[EEGator]

Does that thing sit or stand to pee?

[Inyo-Mono]

Can’t blame me, I have a swamp cooler.

[Robert DeLong]

Danny is Managing Editor at TechCrunch, where he covers technology, power, and startup growth. Previously, he was a foreign correspondent at TechCrunch based in Seoul, South Korea as well as a venture capitalist with General Catalyst in Palo Alto and Charles River Ventures in Boston and New York. He was awarded a Fulbright research scholarship to South Korea, where he researched the development of Korea’s startup ecosystem. He is a PhD dropout from Harvard where he studied public policy and an honors graduate of Stanford, where he studied mathematical and computational sciences. Danny is based in Brooklyn.

[Rurudyne]

Draining your swamp cooler is the only swamp the government will drain.

[cockroach_magoo]

The temerity of someone with his pedigree to think he knows anything about air conditioning, or anything about global warming.

I wonder if he understands that refrigerants are used in all refrigeration, not just air conditioning.

[Bubba_Leroy]

"In fact, whole social classes outright rejected the technology for years.”

Rich white liberals who can afford to fly their jets to their summer houses in cooler climates.

[BobL]

I don’t know the numbers, but I suspect that 98% of all people getting air conditioning for the first time are in the THIRD WORLD. All one has to do is look up from the street in ANY Third World country that gets even a bit hot, and all you see are air conditioners. Been there, seen it first hand.

So what’s the proposal, to tell the people sweltering in those counties that they need to dispose of their air conditioners? Why do I not think so.

[cuban leaf]

Sure, all 150 of them. :)

[Not_Who_U_Think]

In the future, you can have your A/C, but unless your social score is really high you won’t have enough credits to purchase juice for a car too.

[Noumenon]

The authors new home plan inserted here.

[BobL]

Three countries with the LARGEST dollar volume of air conditioners sales (accounting for 55% of sales world-wide). Note that some familiar countries are not listed:

China: US$16.4 billion (35.4% of air conditioners exports)
Thailand: $5.2 billion (11.2%)
Mexico: $4 billion (8.7%)

[Rummyfan]

As soon as all the Federal bureaucrats in Washington , DC, give up their A/C July through September, and all the office workers in NYC do the same for a summer, I am totally ignoring this nonsense. No one wants to give up their A/C. The author should go spend a summer in southern Arizona or Houston or Miami without it and then get back to us.

[Rummyfan]

...to get us to see how our everyday comforts affect other people. Our choice of frigid cooling emits flagrant quantities of greenhouse gas emissions, placing untold stress on our planet and civilization.

Sorry, I do not believe that.

[ealgeone]

Was on a call about climate change and the libs were bemoaning the lack of AC in Portland among blacks and poor. Liberalism is truly a mental illness.