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Air conditioners are actually making cities hotter, not cooler

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Video. Fact-check: Is air conditioning making cities hotter?

Updated: 30/08/2023 - 16:29 GMT+2

A study found that waste heat generated by a city’s worth of air conditioners during a heatwave can raise the outside temperature by more than 2 degrees Celsius.

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