airconditioners

Air-conditioners:

We can hardly be blamed for cocooning ourselves in air-conditioned offices, cars, shops and increasingly our homes - especially with temperatures last month averaging 7C higher than usual across southern England and Scotland. Global warming forecasts predict that, within 40 years, every summer will be as sweltering as the 2003 heatwave. But the irony is, as we run away from the effects of global warming, we only add to the problem.

Air-conditioning works by ducting air across the colder, heat-absorbing side of a thermostatically controlled refrigeration system and directing it back into the living environment. In water-cooled air-conditioning units the waste heat is carried away by the flow of water. In portable units, the heat is generally fed away via a flexible hose that has to be put out of a window. While this might stop us sweating on stifling summer days, it also adds around 50 per cent to the energy costs of a building and in cars increases fuel consumption by 10 to 14 per cent - a major concern when it comes to the environment.

But the fact is, as the world heats up, so does our reliance on cooling systems that consume large amounts of energy and result in further pollution of the planet. Therefore, if we cut down on their usage, or perhaps even stop using them altogether, we'll be helping to stop the promotion of global warming! (besides, with recession, electricity bills rising and all, we're helping to patch up that splitting pocket of ours too!)

and so, without the effect of global warming, we would be able to enjoy back our usual lifestyle. besides, we don't live in this environment to ruin it, but to care for it, receiving and cherishing the wonderful natural phenomenons around us.

so yes, STOP YOUR USE OF AIR CONDITIONERS NOW! (:

you can take comfort in the public places which provide them instead ;D

source: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0824-06.htm

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