Study Measures Air Pollution Increase Attributable to Air Conditioning
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - 12:41
in Physics & Chemistry
A new University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows that the electricity production associated with air conditioning causes emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide to increase by hundreds to thousands of metric tons, or 3 to 4 percent per degree Celsius (or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).