{"id":18776,"date":"2026-07-02T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/?p=18776"},"modified":"2026-11-02T15:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T14:30:52","slug":"air-conditioning-extremely-costly-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/air-conditioning-extremely-costly-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Air conditioning : extremely costly solution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some adaptation strategies actually exacerbate global warming\u2014air conditioning being a prime example. While useful for protecting vulnerable individuals from extreme heat in sensitive settings, air conditioning is extremely costly, consumes significant energy, and heats up the outside air. Consequently, a heatwave becomes even more dangerous for the surrounding neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, air conditioning systems rely on refrigerant gases that contribute to climate change. For instance, some units use \u00ab\u00a0R-32\u00a0\u00bb gas, which can leak into the environment as the equipment ages. A single gram of this gas has a global warming potential 675 times greater than that of a gram of CO2. Finally, the high cost of air conditioning puts it out of reach for a large segment of the population. The prevalence of such systems varies according to socio-professional status, highlighting a greater vulnerability among the poorest households, who have less capacity to protect themselves from the effects of extreme heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some adaptation strategies actually exacerbate global warming\u2014air conditioning being a prime example. While useful for protecting vulnerable individuals from extreme heat in sensitive settings, air conditioning is extremely costly, consumes significant energy, and heats up the outside air. Consequently, a heatwave becomes even more dangerous for the surrounding neighborhood. Furthermore, air conditioning systems rely on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-en","category-energy-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18777,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776\/revisions\/18777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actforyourplanet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}