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
https://climatechangedispatch.com/european-union-air-conditioning-feudalism/ By Kurt Zindulka The governing body of the European Union has been accused of holding a neo-feudalist mindset after it was reported that only certain areas of its building in Brussels kept air conditioning running during last week’s record-breaking heatwave. [some emphasis, links added] According to a POLITICO report, the EU Commission’s Berlaymont building in […]
Meteorologist Chris Martz: ‘Heatwaves are no more evidence of climate change than cold snaps are evidence against it. It’s summertime. It’s weather’
Sort of amazing that European “net zero” policies won’t do squat to stop climate change. Might as well install the A/C and quit virtue signaling. Also, heatwaves are no more evidence of climate change than cold snaps are evidence against it. It’s summertime. It’s weather. https://t.co/P7x2w6U1hn pic.twitter.com/BIpeQZAdKG — Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) June 28, 2026
MIT Climate 2024: ‘Historically, heating has contributed more to climate change than cooling has’ – ‘Most of those emissions come from heating’ Not AC – Calls AC a ‘magical’ technology
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’
https://www.gbnews.com/news/air-conditioning-heatwave-remove-40c-net-zero By Dan McDonald Britons have been ordered to remove air conditioning from their homes – despite the country baking in up to 40C heat this week – under a fresh Net Zero crackdown. Planning officials at councils have told residents to take down their cooling units over concerns about carbon dioxide emissions. They say […]
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’
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 … and chilly compared to recent geological time. Good for humans bad for T-Rex 🦖 From 2024 paper: pic.twitter.com/WemonJhh9N — Ryan Maue (@RyanWeather) June 28, 2026
‘It’s like feudalism’: EU HQ shuts off air conditioning during heatwave– but only for floors 1-7, where people of lower rank work
The European Commission literally shut off air conditioning but only for floors 1-7, where people of lower rank work. pic.twitter.com/tQTOcyXkcc — Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) June 26, 2026 POLITICO: EU Commission HQ forced to shut down air-conditioning amid heatwave – As Brussels bakes, the Berlaymont building’s AC stops working. The European Commission’s headquarters was forced […]
Socialist Mayor of Paris rejects installing AC in homes: ‘Individual air conditioning is a scourge – it makes the problem worse by heating the city even more’ – Instead urges ‘cooling collective spaces’ – ‘We need to change our way of life’
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2026/06/25/paris-mayor-gregoire-on-the-climate-crisis-to-adapt-together-we-need-to-change-our-way-of-life_6754853_5.html 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 […]
Pielke Jr.: Europe’s Deadly Aversion to Air Conditioning: ‘Tens of thousands die in European summers for want of a technology the rest of the rich world takes for granted’
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/europes-deadly-aversion-to-air-conditioning By ROGER PIELKE JR. Excerpt: Europe is warming: ~0.5°C per decade since the 1980s. Figure 1 shows the continent’s annual count of days since 1950 with “strong heat stress” — a feels-like temperature of 32°C or higher. The trend was flat into the 1980s, then rose sharply: 2022 through 2024 rank as the highest […]
Meteorologist: European heatwave ‘has nothing whatsoever to do with climate change or greenhouse gas emissions’
Why is it hot in Europe this week? Well, it has to do with the “omega block” in the jet stream. Omega blocks get their name because they resemble the Greek uppercase letter omega, Ω. You can see that in the synoptic setup. The map below on the left shows the 500 mb… pic.twitter.com/D2KHo9cOv3 — […]
Bjorn Lomborg: ‘While the media focuses on Europe’s heatwave: Remember, cold kills far more Europeans than heat’ – ‘Extreme heat is the smallest temperature-related killer’
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 […]