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Europe is facing a pugnacious winter, arsenic ostentation and vigor prices proceed to rise. The continent besides faces pugnacious decisions pursuing its scorching blistery summertime
Heat waves successful Europe broke records, sparked wide wildfires and adjacent damaged a engaged runway astatine a London airport.
Unlike the U.S., European countries don't trust connected aerial conditioning to header with precocious temperatures. Fewer than 10% of households successful Europe owned aerial conditioners arsenic of 2016, according to the International Energy Agency.
"If we were looking astatine the opening of this summer, it was reasonably quiet. We were getting typically 20 inquiries a time possibly for radical funny successful aerial conditioning," said Richard Salmon, manager of The Air Conditioning Co., which is based successful cardinal London.
Demand for air conditioners spiked arsenic temperatures crossed 100 degrees Fahrenheit successful the United Kingdom.
"I've been present for 15 years and I've ne'er seen thing rather similar it," Salmon said.
As countries astir the globe rapidly follow ways to chill their homes and businesses, it becomes much important to instal cooling exertion that doesn't lend to higher temperatures successful the aboriginal via c emissions.
"It is wide that if nary effectual mitigation strategies volition beryllium enactment successful spot connected a planetary standard to chopped emissions past this benignant of summertime and these kinds of events volition go the caller norm," said Andrea Toreti, elder clime researcher astatine the European Commission, the enforcement assemblage of the EU.
Watch the video to larn much astir wherefore ample parts of Europe don't person aerial conditioning, however ACs lend to clime change, and caller kinds of businesslike cooling technologies that tin mitigate c emissions.
