Six days to go until the start of COP26 at Glasgow, so today's feature has a climate focus. I looked into the spread of air conditioning as a way of "adapting" to rising temperatures, which is, of course, one of many feedback loops making things worse, and at other good or bad ways of adapting to climate change, partially inspired by the book Great Adaptations, which I read for review recently.
So here are some things we can and some we shouldn't do as the climate catastrophe accelerates:
Keeping cool in a warming climate
Current Biology Volume 31, Issue 20, 25 October 2021, Pages R1363-R1365
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See also my twitter thread listing all the 2021 features in Current Biology as they move to the open archives.
If the response to rising temperatures is the installation of more air-conditioning units, this will add to carbon emissions and thus accelerate the climate catastrophe. (Photo: Kars Alfrink/Flickr (CC BY 2.0).)
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