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Posted on 06/26/2026 7:26:13 PM PDT by DoodleBob
…While nearly 90% of US homes have air conditioning, in Europe it’s around 20%.
As climate change drives more severe and prolonged heat waves, which arrive earlier and earlier, some are questioning why wealthy European countries have been seemingly reluctant to adopt air conditioning — especially as the heat takes an increasingly deadly toll.
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“In Europe… we simply don’t have the tradition of air conditioning… because up to relatively recently, it hasn’t been a major need,” said Brian Motherway, head of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Inclusive Transitions …
Buildings on the continent tend to be older, built before AC technology became mainstream. In England, which has just endured its hottest June on record, one in six homes were built before 1900.
It can be harder to outfit older homes with central cooling systems, although far from impossible, Motherway said.
Sometimes a bigger problem is red tape, said Richard Salmon, the director of the Air Conditioning Company based in the UK.
UK authorities will often reject applications to install AC “on the basis of the visual appearance of the outdoor condenser unit, especially in conservation areas or on listed buildings,” he said.
There is also a policy angle. Europe has pledged to become “climate neutral” by 2050 and a sharp increase in air conditioners will make climate commitments even harder to reach.
Not only are air conditioners energy guzzlers, but they also push heat outside. A study looking at AC use in Paris found they could increase the outside temperature between about 2 and 4 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 7.2 Fahrenheit). This impact is especially severe in Europe’s generally dense cities.
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But experts warn AC may be a quick reprieve from scorching temperatures but it gobbles up energy, most of which still comes from planet-heating fossil fuels.
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The defense presents Exhibits A and B.
You get occasional heatwaves in summer. Who knew?
Change of seasons = “Climate Change”
100F is not brutal when the humidity is only 30% .
This is where “climate change” is akin to a death cult.
Anyone who’s letting grandma die of heat to save the planet is a walking DSM-5 situation.
Honest to goodness, the mindset presented herein is like that lawyer who torched himself to protest global warming.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3647598/posts
Environmentalist Burns Himself to Death to Protest Fossil Fuels
Townhall.com ^ | April 14, 2018 | Timothy Meads
Posted on 4/14/2018, 9:39:29 PM by Kaslin
Higher latitudes.
When my sister moved to Portland 20 years ago, she told the realtor to only show houses with central air. She said during the summer her kids friends wanted to hang at their house.
Once when staying during summer in an Italian hotel in Florence the AC broke down. The manager told me it would take 3 days to fix. He said the hotel was 500 years old and every part of the system had to be custom made. That must be expensive.
Uncivilized states of europistan.
Climates change and tectonic plates shift.
That’s what they do.
I did not sleep in a Holiday Inn Express.
And I’m sold out of flagpoles.
Easy! Only 20% are worthy of AC!
Sometimes a bigger problem is red tape, said Richard Salmon, the director of the Air Conditioning Company based in the UK.
UK authorities will often reject applications to install AC “on the basis of the visual appearance of the outdoor condenser unit, especially in conservation areas or on listed buildings,” he said.
Because they are green save-the-planet ringpieces.
Europe would lose its identity if it didn’t smell like B.O. everywhere. They take hygiene not so seriously. I bet you couldn’t find a hand sanitizer dispenser in Paris with Interpol looking for it.
So the invasion of filthy third world degenerates don’t bother them so much.
Americans are so pampered! For thousands of years, people didn’t have air conditioning. Of course, many died. But people were conditioned to just deal with it.
None of my homes have ever had air conditioning. Even when temps are 100 degrees F, it is still bearable. When I stay at others’ homes, I dislike the air conditioning.
I did a trip on the Danube two years ago. It was c relatively cool with heavy rain. Weather on earth is dynamic, not average. It changes from year to year. Notice how they never say it’s unprecedented because it isn’t!
80°F with 80% humidity feels far more oppressive than 100°F with 35% humidity. The humidity during the daytime in western Europe has been around 35%. Nothing burger.
It’s true we are pampered and I didn’t have AC when growing up. But no way I’m not going to have it now. Love it. My choice.
90% here in Japan have AC .
100 degrees is always brutal to live in.
Europe has low humidity, they are just being wimps.
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