French Newspaper LeMonde asks: ‘Should residents also install air conditioning in their homes?’
Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire (Parti Socialiste): “It can be useful for cooling collective spaces and protecting the most vulnerable populations, but individual air conditioning is a scourge – it makes the problem worse by heating the city even more. That is why public authorities must act quickly, otherwise people will not wait: They will buy their own air conditioners and install them however they can at home, because the situation is unbearable. We need to provide answers and alternative tools.”
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Paris Mayor Grégoire on the climate crisis: ‘To adapt together, we need to change our way of life’
Elected in March to lead a city that is particularly vulnerable to extreme heat waves, Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire (Parti Socialiste) urged people to be “pragmatic” and not to respond to the current climate crisis with “promises of a better future in 10 or 15 years.”
The socialist leader of Paris thinks air conditioning is a “scourge.”
The French will never not but the butt of jokes. pic.twitter.com/y4dfJbjBsO
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) June 25, 2026
Euros would rather lead the world in heat deaths than admit Americans were right! pic.twitter.com/h62PVOvIZo
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) June 25, 2026
Thanks for admitting that the EU’s “net zero” policies have done absolutely nothing to stop heatwaves.
Suicidal empathy strikes again, amirite? 🤣
Also, I love how you blame the ongoing EU heatwave on U.S. energy policies, but not China which produces ~6 billion more tons of… https://t.co/FnCQ4f6d72 pic.twitter.com/wxYmFGpJsj
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) June 25, 2026
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Climate Depot’s Marc Morano: “The entire UN climate agenda has been warning about the evils and carbon footprint of air-conditioning, yet when they hold a climate summit in a tropical city, UN officials immediately scream for colder air-conditioning! You would think that the UN, which is trying to manage energy economies centuries into the future, would’ve been able to plan a climate summit that included adequate air-conditioning, functioning toilets, and insects on the menu.
UN officials chose to hold a climate summit that featured massive amounts of meat consumption (Why are insects not being served at UN COP30 food court?), air conditioning, and a climate highway that required clear-cutting of the tens of thousands of acres of Amazon rainforest for the summit.”
Reuters – March 14, 2024: There will be no air conditioning in the athletes’ rooms at Paris 2024, which has pledged to host the “greenest ever” Games. … Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo told those nations planning on installing air conditioning at the athletes’ village to “trust the science” instead… With climate scientists warning that global warming has produced more extreme weather patterns in much of the world, organisers of Paris 2024 have said they want to halve the carbon footprint compared with the Rio 2016 and London 2012 Summer Games. “I think we have to trust science on two counts. The first is what scientists are telling us about the fact that we are on the brink of a precipice. Everyone, including the athletes, must be aware of this,” said Hidalgo. “And secondly, we have to trust the scientists when they help us to construct buildings in a sober way that allows us to make do without air conditioning.”
Related flashback links:
NYT: Do Americans Need Air-Conditioning?
Discovery Mag.: ‘Is Air Conditioning Killing the Planet?’
Spain Decrees Energy Austerity With Air Conditioning Limits – Set AC no lower than 81 F
Uncool: Biden Pushes Senate to Ratify Treaty That Would Raise Cost of Air Conditioning
Spain Decrees Energy Austerity With Air Conditioning Limits – Set AC no lower than 81 F
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MIT in 2024: But air conditioning, which made active cooling of our homes and offices possible, was only invented in the early 20th century. “This process is still really magical,” Reinhart says. “There’s nothing in nature that you can turn on and suddenly it becomes ice cold on a hot day, right? Because it works against entropy. So it’s just really fascinating that we can do this at all.”
France’s ideological war on air conditioning – Paris Mayor claims U.S. bears ‘a significant amount of responsibility’ for the deadly heatwave gripping France
NYT Frets Over AC While Europeans Swelter And Die – Sweat-soaked Europe gets lectured by NY Times: Push for air conditioning is a ‘far right’ plot
AC Feudalism: Eurocrats Stay Cool While Staff Swelter In Brussels Heatwave – Unelected EU commissioners kept AC running on upper floors while lower-level staff sweltered below
Meteorologist Chris Martz: ‘Heatwaves are no more evidence of climate change than cold snaps are evidence against it. It’s summertime. It’s weather’
MIT Climate 2024: ‘Historically, heating has contributed more to climate change than cooling has’ – ‘Most of those emissions come from heating’ Not AC
MIT in 2024: But air conditioning, which made active cooling of our homes and offices possible, was only invented in the early 20th century. “This process is still really magical,” Reinhart says. “There’s nothing in nature that you can turn on and suddenly it becomes ice cold on a hot day, right? Because it works against entropy. So it’s just really fascinating that we can do this at all.”
Britons ordered to remove air conditioning from homes in 100F+ heat under Net Zero crackdown – AC serve as ‘last resort’ only after ventilation ‘by natural means’ – Avoid ‘energy intensive AC systems’
Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue: ‘Over the past 485 million years, global mean surface temperature has ranged from 11°C to upwards of 36°C during the age of dinosaurs. We’re at ~15°C today.. & chilly compared to recent geological time. Good for humans’
‘Climate Change’ Is Making People Live Longer! – ‘As temperatures increase (if they do), so does life expectancy!’
Statistician Dr. Matt Briggs: Hawaii, the hottest state on average all year round, with averages around 70 in the coldest months, and near 90 in the summers, had the highest life expectancy (80.7 years), and highest at 65 (21 years).
Michigan, which I can personally attest is damn cold, ranks 36 at birth (76 years) and also 36 at 65 (17.8 years). Whereas hot-hot-hot Florida ranks 19th at birth (77.5 years), soaring to number 6 at 65 (19.2 years).
The signal is the same: if you want to live longer, move to where it’s hot when you’re 65. Thanks, “climate change”!
Guardian: “heat kills more people in Europe than almost any other issue you worry about” But that’s because the Guardian doesn’t tell you about the things to really worry about, like cold deathhttps://t.co/3z0fO6ubyR https://t.co/TyJ0yl8KJN — Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) June 25, 2026 While the media focuses on Europe’s heatwave: Remember, cold kills far more Europeans than […]
No, Climate Central, Summer Warming Isn’t Due to Climate Change
Factcheck: A Heat Wave Is NOT a ‘Fingerprint of Climate Change’
