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Is air conditioning making cities hotter? (www.euronews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Having just spent some time in Hong Kong, a city that appears to be addicted to AC, I had wondered this myself. Shops completely open to the street would have air conditioners blasting. You almost had to wear a jumper inside many buildings because they were set so low. I went into shopping malls which had portable AC units because they has single glazed glass frontages which radiated heat.