Losing Our Cool

Author: Stan Cox
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B007F81YL4

Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer)

Losing our Cool shows how indoor climate control is colliding with an out-of-control outdoor climate. Get Losing Our Cool computer books for free.
In America, energy consumed by home air-conditioning, and the resulting greenhouse emissions, have doubled in just over a decade, and energy to cool retail stores has risen by two-thirds. Now the entire affluent world is adopting the technology. As the biggest economic crisis in eighty years rolls across the globe, financial concerns threaten to shove ecological crises into the background. Reporting from some of the world's hot zonesAfrom Phoenix, Arizona, and Naples, Florida, to southern IndiaACox documents the surprising ways in which air-conditioning changes human experience: giving a boost to the global warming that it is desi Check Losing Our Cool our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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Reporting from some of the world's hot zonesAfrom Phoenix, Arizona, and Naples, Florida, to southern IndiaACox documents the surprising ways in which air-conditioning changes human experience: giving a boost to the global warming that it is desi

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