Cooling Divide Emerging as Air Conditioning Deepens Climate Inequality in the UK, Study Finds - The Tribune

Cooling divide emerging as air conditioning deepens climate inequality in the UK, study finds - The Tribune

Research shows AC access remains low overall but is growing unevenly across income groups, regions and housing types, raising concerns over a widening gap in protection from extreme heat.

Cooling divide: How air conditioning is creating new climate inequality

Environment News: For decades, people in the UK tended to view air conditioning as something that belonged elsewhere. It was associated with office buildings, hotels an.

Why Britain needs air conditioning now

Why is air conditioning becoming a necessity?Until recently, the UK scarcely needed to consider air conditioning; now it is a pressing economic and political issue. A sweaty, sleep-deprived country is wondering what has happened to the traditionally underwhelming British summer – the “three fine days and a thunderstorm” of blessed memory. For centuries, summer's lease hath, famously, had “all too short a date”. This year, though, it's an all too…