AC-free ambition for Paris Olympics melts away as organisers order 2,500 cooling units

France24 ^ | July 2, 2024

[Lurker]

“I have a lot of respect for the comfort of athletes, but I think a lot more about the survival of humanity,” she told French radio station France Info in February 2023.”

I’ll bet her office is air conditioned along with her home and car.

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[Libloather]

"...but I think a lot more about the survival of humanity,"

Olympic athletes expell an awful lot of CO2. Time to shut it down.

[Steely Tom]

"I have a lot of respect for the comfort of athletes, but I think a lot more about the survival of humanity,"

I do not for one second believe that Madame Hidalgo's office and home, as well as every building in which she sets foot during the course of a normal day, is fully air conditioned.

[NWFree]

So much for all that fake climate change crap

[jjotto]

2019 European heat waves. Hit 100+F, when average highs are 80 degrees.

[livius]

Ha ha ha ha ha….

[OneVike]

The complex in a northern suburb of Paris was built as a showcase of environmentally friendly technology and has a geothermal cooling system that uses cool water pumped from deep beneath the ground

They built the complex using swamp coolers. I would be bringing a portable A/C also. Anyone lives or has ever lived in the deep South, knows how badly swamp coolers drive up the already miserably high humidity into unbearable levels.

I was transferred from Germany in "75" to Ft Benning GA. After my tour of dusty ended I decided to live in Columbus for a few years. I returned 2 more time over the next 10 years, until I left for good in "85". I would rather deal with the heat than deal with the high humidity a swamp cooler creates.