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Losing Our Cool in the Media


Hear “Chilling Facts About Air Conditioners”, a one-hour interview and call-in with Stan Cox on the NPR program On Point – May 26

An article on Losing Our Cool appeared May 16 in the Boston Globe.

Macleans: How Air-Conditioning Changed the World

An essay written by Cox for Powell’s Books: “In Making Our Own Weather, Have We Remade Ourselves?”, May 19.

A May 19 story in the Salina Journal.

Publisher’s Weekly reviews Losing Our Cool.


Table of Contents

Preface

What? A book about air-conditioning?

1. “There’s No Power on Earth That Can Stop It!”

We have air-conditioning to thank for experiments like Phoenix, Arizona and Naples, Florida. But how long can they keep up the pace?

2. Making the Weather

With its fast-growing power consumption and refrigerant releases, residential, commercial, and mobile air-conditioning is warming the outdoors as effectively as it is cooling the indoors.

3. The Air-Conditioned Dream

What families and communities have lost in our retreat from nature world into the expanding climate-controlled universe

4. Going Mobile

How southward migration radically changed the United States, and the woes of the commuter in sprawling, simmering Sun Belt cities

5. The Business Climate

Can air-conditioning make you work harder and spend more?

6. Surviving the Great Indoors

Air-conditioning can save lives. But whatis it that really kills people during heat waves, and how do our bodies respond to round-the-clock air-conditioning?

7. India: Where “A/C” Means “VIP”

The new frontiers of climate control in one of the planet's hottest regions.

8. Inconspicuous Consumption

With air-conditioning, as with the whole economy, the chief source of problems is solutions.

9. Coming Out of the Cold

New ways, technological and otherwise, to find comfort and get through the summer




Stan Cox

Is a plant breeder and  writer living in Salina, Kansas


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