[ad_1]
The increasing use of the air conditioning especially in the summer and before the high temperatures, further degrades the quality of the air and worsens pollution of the air. air according to a study published today (July 3, 2018) in the journal PLOS Medicine
Such is the effect, that a team of researchers from the [UniversityofWisconsin-Madison(USA)Predicts 1,000 additional deaths a year in the eastern part of the country in the middle of the century because of high levels of air pollution caused by the increased use of fossil fuels to cool buildings. The analysis of combines projections of five different models to predict greater energy consumption during the summer in a warmer world and how that would affect the consumption of fossil fuels, the quality of the air and, consequently, the human health in a few decades.
The lead author of the study, Jonathan Patz, of UW-Madison, assured that during the summer periods of the future, in which heat waves will increase in frequency and in intensity, air conditioning "will save lives".
However, Professor Patz warned that if this upward use of air conditioning is dependent on energy derived from fossil fuels, air pollution "will cause more illness and death ".
The 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 the study was developed.
The report projects an additional 13 000 human deaths per year caused by higher levels of ina particles in summer and 3,000 caused by ozone in the United States in the United States. mid-century
Most of these deaths will be attributable to natural processes such as the chemistry atmospheric emissions and natural, which are affected by the increase
However, about a thousand of these deaths will occur each year due to one According to the analysis, the results of the new study, according to the l [39] Wisconsin team, stress the need to move to more sustainable energy sources, such as wind and solar energy, and deploy more air conditioning equipment that saves energy.
Source link
