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100 Years of 100 Things: Air Conditioners
Episode 514

100 Years of 100 Things: Air Conditioners

Continuing our centennial series "100 Years of 100 Things," Eric Dean Wilson walks us through the promise of air conditioning of the past 100 years -- how it relieved people of warming temperatures and how they have eventually contributed to climate change.

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July 24, 202429m 52s

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Show Notes

Continuing our centennial series "100 Years of 100 Things," Eric Dean Wilson, Queens College writing instructor and the author of After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort (Simon & Schuster, 2021), walks us through the promise of air conditioning of the past 100 years -- how it relieved people of warming temperatures and how they have eventually contributed to climate change.

Topics

climate_changeaca.c.air_conditioningclimate_change_historylocal_wnycwnyc_centennialextreme_heatglobal_warming