Malkin: Holy Hypocrisy and Hot Air

Creators Syndicate ^ | June 24, 2015 | Michelle Malkin

[jazusamo]

Unlike Pope Francis, I believe that air-conditioning and the capitalists responsible for the technology are blessings to the world.

Perhaps the head of the Catholic Church, who condemned "the increasing use and power of air-conditioning" last week in a market-bashing encyclical, is unaware of the pioneering private company that has donated its time, energy and innovative heating, ventilating and air-conditioning equipment to the Vatican's most famous edifice for more than a decade.

That's right. While the pontiff sanctimoniously attacks "those who are obsessed with maximizing profits," Carrier Corporation — a $13 billion for-profit company with 43,000 employees worldwide (now a unit of U.S.-based United Technologies Corp.) — ensures that the air in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel stays clean and cool.

Last fall, Carrier unveiled a groundbreaking HVAC system for the Vatican to help preserve Michelangelo's masterpieces against pollution caused by the estimated six million visitors who descend on the Sistine Chapel every year to see its famous frescoes.

As the company described it, their new solution "uses two Carrier AquaForce(r) 30XWV water-cooled chillers with Greenspeed(r) intelligence, each with 580 kilowatts of capacity. It leverages specially designed software and components, as well as patented, energy-saving technologies to maintain optimal climate conditions for the protection of the paintings within the chapel." State-of-the-art intelligent controls "anticipate visitor levels and adjust its performance intuitively." It also "delivers twice the efficiency and three times the capacity of the former system, which was built and installed by Carrier in the early 1990s."

[Tench_Coxe]

Note to Pope Francis:
When your "industry" is based upon people having faith in your institution, hypocrisy is the dry rot that will eventually cause the support to collapse.
Ironically, a Jesuit should know better, since his order was founded to combat the falling away of Christians reacting to the hypocrisy of their former leaders starting in 1517.

[livius]

Worse, he’s Argentinian. They don’t consider themselves really Latin American, they boast about having no Spanish blood (the Pope is 100% Italian descent) and yet they think their dysfunctional populist pit is the only good thing about Latin America.

[I want the USA back]

He’s not fit to be pope. His extreme liberalism has become his life philosophy.

[minnesota_bound]

Holy Smokes! 580 gigawatts of capacity!
They must being using plutonium and a DeLorean to power the a/c.....

[jazusamo]

That's 580 kilowatts, big difference. :)

[minnesota_bound]

each with 580 gigawatts of capacity
So 2 DeLoreans

[RetiredTexasVet]

All that expense and carbon gluttony just to keep Comrade Pope cool!!!!!

[generally]

Remember a few years back when they had a heat wave in France. Dozens of people (hundreds?) who didn’t have air conditioning died. Does the Pope think that was a good thing?

[jmacusa]

I sure do. Dozens of mostly elderly people baked to death in their apartments because their socialist health care system and their government-mandated 37.5 hour work week had all the health care workers and bureaucrats(how the Frenchies love bureaucracy) had them all saying, “I’m outta here, vacation time. I’m off work. Too bad for the old folks’’. This pope is an a-hole. He ought to shut his mouth or turn off the air conditioning in The Vatican.

[VideoDoctor]

It’s pretty obvious that the Pope is a JOKE.. and not a funny one.

[VideoDoctor]

Does the Pope think that was a good thing?

I'm afraid the Pope doesn't THINK.

Like Obunga he simply reads and delivers what his handlers tell him to do.

The current Pope is nothing more than a STOOGE that was elevated to the papacy.

[hinckley buzzard]

Sometime back in the last century, maybe in the late 80's or early 90's, there was a severe August heat wave in Europe. In France alone, literally thousands of residents in uncooled nursing homes perished from the heat. A similar heat wave in Chicago took about 600 lives, for the same cause. Buildings' internal temperatures can rise even beyond the outdoor temperature and only air conditioning can enable many people to survive.

This pope's display of ignorance of the real world disappoints at an alarming rate.

[BearArms]

I, too, approve of air conditioning. Much more useful than anything that ever came out of the Vatican, that’s for sure.

[Larry Lucido]

Carrier. Bah!

Should have gotten a Commando 8!

Or the Kaiser. It has three settings: Durlow, Blitzkrieg, and Freezingmyhienneyoff.

[Larry Lucido]

Forgot to “Ping” you all.