Fig. 1: Global cooling demand trends under different climate change scenarios.
From: Rising Air-Conditioning Use Intensifies Global Warming
a Global Cooling Degree Days under different SSP-RCP scenarios. Global CDDs represent the total population-weighted CDDs (unit: 1000 CDDs) during the time period 2010–2100. The color lines represent mean population-weighted CDDs during 2015–2100 across five SSP-RCP scenarios. The shadows and bars represent wide ranges of global population-weighted CDDs in 2050/2100 from 25 GCM outputs; b Detailed regional CDDs in 2050 under the baseline scenario (SSP245). c Regional cooling demand variation by 2050 under other scenarios compared to the baseline. Red and blue represent increased and reduced regional CDDs compared to the baseline scenario, respectively. Regional CDD variation under the SSP126 and SSP585 scenarios is shown in Supplementary Fig. 1.
