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Extreme temperatures present a significant challenge to AC systems, which engineers and installers say are really only designed to keep indoor temperatures about 20 degrees cooler than outside.

“We need to shift Canada from a cold-climate mindset to a hot-climate mindset to prevent more deaths,” one climate expert said.

Many residents are being forced to ride out the heat wave with the help of electric fans, ice packs, and cold showers.

How Air-Conditioning Made Us Expect Arizona to Feel the Same as Maine It’s a quiet force that contributes to a sameness across the country and to climate change.

“Air-conditioning is a useful tool.” France’s heated discussion of air-conditioning cooled along with the temperatures in the weeks that followed last month’s heat wave.