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Tal is the effect, that a team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) predicted a thousand additional deaths annually in the eastern part of the country in the middle of century because of the high levels of air pollution caused by the
analysis combines the projections of five different models to predict increased energy consumption during the summer in a warmer world and how it would affect the energy consumption of fossil fuels, the quality of energy. and, therefore, human health in a few decades.
Lead author of the study, Jonathan Patz, of UW-Madison, assured that In the summer seasons of the future, where heat waves will increase in frequency and intensity, air conditioning will "save lives".
However, Professor Patz warned that if this ascending use of air conditioning depends on the energy derived from fossil fuels, air pollution "will cause more illness and death," says Informe. 21.
Residential and office buildings are the largest energy consumers in the United States, responsible for more than 60% of the energy demand in the east of the country, where electricity is high. study was developed.
The report projects 13,000 additional annual human deaths caused by higher levels of fine particulates in the summer and 3,000 caused by ozone in the United States in the middle of the century. 19659002] Most of these deaths will be attributable to natural processes such as atmospheric chemistry and natural emissions, which are affected by increasing temperatures
However, about a thousand of these deaths will occur each year in because of the increased use of air conditioning driven by fossil fuels, according to the analysis.
The results of the new study, according to the Wisconsin team underscores the need to move to more sustainable sources of energy, such as wind and solar energy, and deploy equipment more energy efficient air conditioning.
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