The additional demand due to the additional warmth adds to the high cost of cooling and air conditioning costs. This warmer trend can also have the potential to extend summer season woes such as allergies, mosquitoes, and ticks. Bird migration, hibernation patterns, growing seasons and fruit ripening can be thrown off schedule. Ecosystem health and biodiversity could potentially be impacted, although, those impacts are not yet fully understood.
Why summer heat seems to be lasting longer
