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Energy
How Japan keeps its cool when temps are high
Firefighters blast water in Berlin in mid-August, providing relief from the heat. This is among the few ways to cool off in a city with little air conditioning.
It’s so hot in Berlin that people are cooling down in an old WWII bunker
Air conditioners being loaded onto a truck for delivery. Most of the world's AC units cool air with chemicals that are big contributors to global warming. A new agreement forged in Kigali, Rwanda, will phase those coolants out over then next 30 years.
Environment
Keeping our planet cooler just got a little easier
Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, wave to crowds from their limousine during Reagan's first inauguration parade in 1981.
Books
How air conditioning got Ronald Reagan elected president
Business, Economics and Jobs
Turn off your air conditioner
Beating the Heat
Freon Free in 1996