Hope this helps someone struggling to survive the heat

  • Burray_Mookchin@lemmy.ml
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    Sure, but the inside and the outside of your house aren’t different universes, the heat that your fridge emits still gets out into the world. Dense urban areas with widespread AC units can indeed be slightly hotter than if there were no AC’s. We’re talking in the ballpark of 1-2°C. That shouldn’t be a big issue for the local environment. And that heat is not what’s causing climate change. Climate change is caused by greenhouse gasses, not by heat-emitting electrical devices

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      Eh, technically both contribute. Heat from electrical devices still gets dumped into the environment, and a good portion of that electricity is produced with greenhouse gasses (coal or oil-fired power plants).

      Generally, though, yeah, the heat from running AC (or, say, a desk fan) is miniscule compared to other factors.

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        The heat from electrical devices are basically negligible compared to what the sun beams into the planet, otherwise solar panels would be physics defying.

        The problem has always been greenhouse gases causing the sun heat to escape slower than we collect them.