'Do your part!' Furious French blame US for deadly European heatwaves

GB News ^ | June 28, 2026 | James Saunders

[River Hawk]

A senior Paris official has blamed the United States in part for France's deadly heatwave.

Audrey Pulvar, the city's deputy mayor for international relations, has raged at Americans mocking France's limited air conditioning - and claimed their greenhouse gas emissions are to blame.

"Dear American journalists and social media 'influencers': for days, some of you have been criticising and making fun of Paris because the city does not have A/C in every room..."

"As the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, you bear a significant amount of responsibility for global warming and the consequences we, in France, are experiencing."

"So please, enough with the lecture. Just start doing your part. Best regards."

France has long held suspicious attitudes towards air conditioning.

The French often associate AC, or "la clim", with illness, due to a belief in the mysterious "thermal shock".

It is widely thought a sudden, drastic difference between hot outside air and cold indoor air shocks the body, causing colds, sore throats, or even a loss of consciousness.

Amid the heat, France is turning towards air conditioning, but it is difficult to install in historic buildings - and politically contentious.

A quarter of French households have an air-con unit - in Spain and Italy, that figure is 50 per cent, and in the US and Japan 90 per cent.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: airconditioning; audreypulvar; carbonscam; crapaud; expelfrancefromnato; france; frenchingrates; globalwarming; usa

[Dr. Sivana]

Have they asked Red China to do her part yet?

[No name given]

I doubt it.

[River Hawk]

LOL, I seriously doubt it !

[Nateman]

I’m proud to be an American
Where at least I have AC
And I won’t forgive the carbon scam
That tried to take that right from me
I’d gladly sit down in my room
And enjoy that sweet cool air
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt
I love this chill
God bless my Frigidaire!

[No name given]

I’d like to see them call out China for once.

[ansel12]

If you left your car idling last week while you ran back into the house to get your billfold you had forgotten, you may have killed a Frenchman.

[vis a vis]

Very nice.........

[No name given]

Sad but true.

[Orosius]

And if we all believe real hard, Tinkerbell won’t die.

[River Hawk]

Great lyrics! Did you write them?

[US_MilitaryRules]

French? You mean mooselimbs!

[LastDayz]

Weelll then.... put me down for three.... and a half.

[Nateman]

Partial credits . I wrote some of them. The line about the Carbon scam is definitely mine.

[Tijeras_Slim]

One Gauloise contributes more to climate change than 10 hour of my AC.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

As I remember, despite not signing the Paris Climate Accords, we were the only nation that actually hit the target set for our country.

So screw you, Frenchie.

[rlmorel]

"...As the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, you bear a significant amount of responsibility for global warming and the consequences we, in France, are experiencing..."

I hope you slowly boil in a pot, you slimy, socialist, Leftist amphibian.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The French are busy obsessing over their environmental delusions while large swathes of their nation fall under Muslim control. The French are not known for their love of either bathing or deodorant in the best of times - I can only imagine the smell over there during these heatwaves.

[lasereye]

As the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, you bear a significant amount of responsibility for global warming and the consequences we, in France, are experiencing

This idiot should be asked how much lower the temperature would be in Paris at this time, if less greenhouse gases were emitted. I am sure he could not provide an intelligent answer.

[NurdlyPeon]

Never, EVER say that these people can’t get any stupider.