No, Paris, US Air Conditioners Did Not Cause Europe’s Heat Wave |
Happy July Fourth and America 250!
We have much to celebrate, beginning with our constitutional rights, equality, and liberties—and the prosperity they have bestowed. Indeed, living in this incredible, diverse, energized country during this time in history, with our modern transportation, communication, healthcare, and AIR CONDITIONING technologies, is a true blessing.
We can also be thankful if we aren’t in Europe this summer, with its 40˚C (104˚F) heat wave—and virtually no air conditioning.
Europe certainly could have AC. Willis Carrier invented it in 1902. Air conditioning was common in American homes by the 1960s, and today 90 percent of all U.S. households and businesses use it to stay cool, reduce humidity, protect equipment and products, work productively … and literally save lives.
But Europe has chosen not to. Actually, its ruling elites have chosen not to allow families and businesses to install AC systems or afford the electricity to operate them. They want to be global leaders in stopping “manmade” warming and climate change—and ensuring the “inevitable” transition from fossil fuel and nuclear power to unpredictable, unreliable, unaffordable wind, solar, and unreliable backup electricity.
Heat waves typically mean little to no wind, and thus no wind power. Clouds and sunsets mean little to no solar power, while high daytime heat means panels become less efficient or even catch fire.
Your ancestors got along fine without AC, the elites tell their subjects. So can you. You’re hot? Open a window and let that balmy 104˚ air flow into your home and workplace.
Europe had some 1,300 excess deaths so far this summer due to the heat, and 2,300 last summer. But it’s not our fault you’re sweltering and dying, it's politicians say.
“As the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world,” the United States bears “a significant responsibility for global warming and the........