[MCN] The prosperous and the poor: How people keep cool in heat waves: Air conditioning, or .....

[Lance Olsen]

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
An NUS study has revealed that Singapore households from different socioeconomic groups vary significantly in their use of water and electricity for the relief of heat. The findings suggest that water provides heat relief for lower-income households while demand for electricity increases among the more affluent, likely through the use of air-conditioning, when temperatures rise. Results from the study could provide insights on how other urban populations in tropical Asian cities will respond as incomes rise and the climate warms.

JOURNAL
Nature Communications
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/nuos-irt122018.php>Full release  https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/nuos-irt122018.php <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/nuos-irt122018.php>


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“The changes experienced by the biosphere over the past century ... have raised concerns about the possibility of rapid shifts from green to desert states.” 

Richard Sole'. Scaling laws in the drier. Nature 13 September 2007

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"What we are witnessing is major hydrologic change," said co-author Jay Famiglietti. 

"We see a distinctive pattern of the wet land areas of the world getting wetter -- those are the high latitudes and the tropics -- and the dry areas in between getting dryer.”

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018


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