Can Air Conditioning Become Greener?

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a sweltering July for large swaths of California, and that means air conditioners have been running on high in households lucky enough to have them. But the energy air conditioners consume and the refrigerants they rely on pose serious threats to the climate. We learn about air conditioning tech and look at California’s efforts to make them greener. And we’ll hear from you: if you have air conditioning, do you have tips for using it efficiently? Or if you don’t have AC, or if you try to avoid using it, how do you keep cool? Guests: Ian McGavisk, senior fellow, RMI; author of the Global Cooling Status and Opportunities Report, UNEP Ari Plachta, climate reporter, Sacramento Bee Aanchal Kohli, climate policymaker, California Air Resources Board Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.3	It's been a sweltering July for large swaths of California, and that means air conditioners
0:55.2	have been running on high and households lucky enough to have them, but the energy air conditioners
1:00.1	consume and the refrigerants they rely on pose serious threats to the climate.
1:05.4	Coming up on Forum, we'll learn what you can do to lessen your impact on the planet as you
1:09.9	keep cool and hear about new
1:12.1	air conditioning tech and California's efforts to make ACs greener. Join us. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
1:36.4	It's been a scorching July for much of California and for the entire globe, as the Earth recorded its hottest week ever this month. The blazing heat is driving up
1:46.5	demand for air conditioning units and the 80 to 90 percent of American households that already
1:51.8	have AC are using it more. But the energy air conditioners consume and the refrigerants they use
1:58.6	have a big impact on the planet.
2:05.3	So this hour, we want to hear what you do to use your AC more efficiently,
2:07.9	or if you don't have it, what you do to keep cool.
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