Heat exposure and global air conditioning

Léopold T. Biardeau, Lucas Davis, Paul Gertler and Catherine Wolfram
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Léopold T. Biardeau: University of California, Berkeley
Paul Gertler: University of California, Berkeley
Catherine Wolfram: University of California, Berkeley

Nature Sustainability, 2020, vol. 3, issue 1, 25-28

Abstract: Abstract Air conditioning adoption is increasing dramatically worldwide as incomes rise and average temperatures go up. Using daily temperature data from 14,500 weather stations, we rank 219 countries and 1,692 cities based on a widely used measure of cooling demand called total cooling degree day exposure. India, China, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Brazil, Bangladesh and the Philippines all have more total cooling degree day exposure than the United States—a country that uses 400 terawatt-hours of electricity annually for air conditioning.

Date: 2020
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