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  1. European summers are getting brutally hot. So why is air conditioning ...

    Jul 2, 2025 · The continent faces a dilemma: embrace energy-intensive air conditioning, with the negative climate impacts it brings, or find alternative ways to cope with its ever-hotter future.

  2. Heat waves: Here’s why your AC can’t save you anymore | CNN

    Jul 4, 2024 · Demand for AC is exploding, expected to triple worldwide by 2050, as global temperatures soar and incomes grow. The problem is, without electricity, access to air conditioning is lost.

  3. This compressor-free cooler could change air-conditioning for homes ...

    Jan 19, 2026 · The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that energy demand for space cooling could more than triple by 2050, driven largely by the rapid spread of air conditioning.

  4. A new threat to affordability – just in time for winter - CNN

    Dec 10, 2025 · A new problem is threatening to worsen the affordability squeeze this winter: Natural gas prices have raced back up just as extreme cold forces Americans to crank up the heat.

  5. Here are 14 items to air out a bathroom with no ventilation - CNN

    Feb 23, 2023 · Ahead, with the help of HVAC experts, we’ve rounded up 14 products that solve the problems associated with a poorly ventilated bathroom.

  6. Washington’s Reagan National Airport working on problem with …

    Jan 18, 2025 · Days before bitter cold descends on the nation’s capital for the inauguration of Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has a problem with its heating system in the …

  7. Extreme heat is pushing India to the brink of ‘survivability ... - CNN

    Jan 7, 2024 · Vast swathes of India’s population remain reliant on AC for their physical and mental wellbeing. And the country’s more tropical southern regions remain hot year-round.

  8. In cramped, sweaty Hong Kong, climate change is making things

    Aug 15, 2025 · “It’s so hot it feels like you’re getting heatstroke,” said Mr. Wu, a middle-aged man living in a subdivided flat without air conditioning in Sham Shui Po.

  9. Thomas Midgley Jr.: The man who almost destroyed the planet (twice ...

    May 24, 2024 · Midgley would go on to leave his mark in history with another destructive invention, also a solution to a problem: the need to replace the noxious and flammable gases used in refrigeration …

  10. The best pillows for back sleepers in 2026, tried and tested

    Jan 15, 2026 · I would blame it on my cats, but I didn’t have the same problem with other pillows I tested.