{"id":68258,"date":"2026-07-13T06:53:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=68258"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:53:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:53:59","slug":"commentary-should-western-countries-embrace-air-con-like-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=68258","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Should Western countries embrace air-con like Singapore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/>Temperate cities do not need to copy Singapore\u2019s dependence on air-conditioning, says climate scientist Winston Chow.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/commentary\/europe-heatwave-air-con-debate-climate-change-6246381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperate cities do not need to copy Singapore\u2019s dependence on air-conditioning, says climate scientist Winston Chow. Read Full Article At Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--6D4zh8PO--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2024-04:reuters_1,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/one-cms\/core\/2026-06-25T131219Z_1_LYNXMPEM5O11S_RTROPTP_3_EUROPE-WEATHER-BRITAIN.JPG?itok=HfOcJ8og","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16080,1126,2819,5755,22,98],"class_list":["post-68258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-aircon","tag-commentary","tag-countries","tag-embrace","tag-singapore","tag-western","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}