Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK)

• Burray_Mookchin@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Okay 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 1-2°C, but 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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  • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • bountygiver@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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• elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Your phrasing of “a lot of bad stuff” sounded like you were saying that AC puts out chemicals or something.

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  • Abyssian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No, but many air conditioners make racist social media posts, aggressively catcall female passerby, and support child marriage.

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