By Benjamin Dressing This year is on track to be the fourth warmest on record, and the effects are being felt across the globe from Northern Europe to the Pacific Northwest. People are dying of heat exhaustion in Japan, and nuclear reactors are being shut down in France, Germany and Switzerland due to the extreme temperatures.
But where there is excessive heat, there is demand for air conditioning.
For our purposes today, let’s focus on the U.S. In July alone, according to Brandon Miller, meteorologist for CNN International, we broke 41 heat records across the United States and are well on our way to breaking …read more
