Our efforts to deal with excessive temperatures are making them worse

When temperatures flip excessive, we rush to regulate our heating or cooling techniques in an try to stay snug. With extreme climate occasions turning into ever extra frequent as a consequence of local weather change, so too does our fidgeting with the thermostat, which in flip is inflicting spikes in each day carbon emissions, resulting in but extra local weather change. Failing to interrupt this vicious cycle will imply the issue solely will get worse.

Zhu Liu at Tsinghua College, China, and his colleagues have been monitoring world each day CO2 emissions since January 2019 to look at…