Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost

Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by tomc1985 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @06:16PM (#17863423)

The difference between 78F and 80F is perceptible to me -- 80F is too hot, indoors, and around 50% humidity, while 78F at similar humidity is fairly comfortable.

I agree that it may not be the most useful thing, but it's worth pointing out.

Also- "2 degrees" of global warming doesn't sound so bad to a lot of fahrenheit folks, its actually closer to 4 degrees in F

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Re:Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environment... by armadsen on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @10:55PM (#17865137)

Yeah, I think there’s something to this. In the US, the news talks about climate change using Celsius, presumably because that’s how scientists measure it. But from a messaging/persuasion perspective, it’s bad. The average American thinks that “2 degrees” isn’t so bad. And in Fahrenheit that’s (kinda) true. I think climate change should be discussed using the units that the public has intuition for.

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