{"id":453442,"date":"2026-07-02T05:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=453442"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T12:18:27","slug":"air-conditioning-vs-climate-activism-uk-eu-face-the-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=453442","title":{"rendered":"Air Conditioning vs. Climate Activism: UK\/EU Face the Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"453447\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=453447\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Air-Conditioning-vs-Climate-Activism-UK-EU-Face-the-Music.png?fit=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0 ChatGPT Air Conditioning vs Climate Activism  UK EU Face the Music\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Air-Conditioning-vs-Climate-Activism-UK-EU-Face-the-Music.png?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Air-Conditioning-vs-Climate-Activism-UK-EU-Face-the-Music.png?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-453447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Air-Conditioning-vs-Climate-Activism-UK-EU-Face-the-Music.png?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Air-Conditioning-vs-Climate-Activism-UK-EU-Face-the-Music.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Air-Conditioning-vs-Climate-Activism-UK-EU-Face-the-Music.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Air-Conditioning-vs-Climate-Activism-UK-EU-Face-the-Music.png?resize=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Air-Conditioning-vs-Climate-Activism-UK-EU-Face-the-Music.png?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Air-Conditioning-vs-Climate-Activism-UK-EU-Face-the-Music.png?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Air-Conditioning-vs-Climate-Activism-UK-EU-Face-the-Music.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/eu-climate-policy\/air-conditioning-versus-heat-waves\/\">Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Robert Bradley Jr<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf I am elected president, I will put into place a massive air-conditioning plan, starting in places with the most vulnerable populations.\u201d \u2013 Marine Le Pen, leader, National Rally Party (French National Assembly)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not easy being green. \u201cGreen\u201d energy is hardly green (think wind\/solar\/battery industrialization), and virtually all climate mitigation activism has negatives for consumers, taxpayers, and freedom. This is less the law of unintended consequences as it is Deep Ecology\u2019s assault on modern living and human betterment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast forward to the summer of 2026. As long predicted, a warming world (natural and anthropogenic) requires adaptation. That means air conditioning, mist machines, and ice generation in increasing amounts to meet the summer peak. Yet the activists&nbsp;<em>despise<\/em>&nbsp;such basic adaptation on grounds that higher electricity demand will require more fossil-fired generation from existing or new capacity. But pragmatism is sure to win out as adaptation overtakes the anti-consumer, anti-comfort mitigation policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anti-Conditioned Air<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAir conditioners have detrimental health effects on our bodies,\u201d according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecomena.org\/air-conditioning-negative-impacts-on-environment\/\">one source<\/a>, \u201cthough that is not the only problem with air conditioners.\u201d The \u201cmany negative impacts on the environment itself\u201d include energy usage, CFC\/HFC emissions, and construction with either steel or non-biodegradable plastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fifty-five years ago, Paul Ehrlich targeted air conditioning as a major ill of society. A\/C could \u201cin large part be closed\u201d except \u201cwhere people must work around hot machines\u201d or heat-sensitive electronics were present. Not to worry\u2014 \u201cthe summer heat can be beaten by most of us in many other ways (as it had to be beaten by all of us only two or three decades ago!).\u201d Ehrlich (and co-author Richard Harriman) go on to recommend 20-hour work weeks to reemploy \u201call the unemployed air conditioner repair men.\u201d&nbsp;<strong>[1]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recommended \u201cclimate-friendly\u201d temperature range of&nbsp;<strong>78\u00b0F (26\u00b0C)<\/strong>&nbsp;summer and&nbsp;<strong>68\u00b0F (20\u00b0C)<\/strong>&nbsp;winter compares to comfort levels for most people of around&nbsp;<strong>72\u00b0F (22\u00b0C)<\/strong>&nbsp;year-round. Beware of \u2018smart meters\u2019 in this regard\u2013and don\u2019t forget Jimmy Carter\u2019s thermostat police back in the 1970s. He first&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1977\/01\/22\/archives\/president-urges-65-as-top-heat-in-homes-to-ease-energy-crisis-cites.html\">recommended<\/a>&nbsp;a winter high of&nbsp;<strong>68\u00b0F&nbsp;<\/strong>or less. A month later he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/memorandum-from-the-president-energy-use-the-federal-government\">instructed<\/a>&nbsp;federal buildings set (winter) temperatures at no more than 65 degrees during the day and 55 degrees during the night. President Reagan ended Carter\u2019s 22-month program in early 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EU\/UK Heat Wave<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current heat wave in Europe is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/paris-desperate-for-ice-amid-record-breaking-heat\/\">front page news<\/a>. Climate change is responsible, it is said. But what about most of the rest of the world that is experiencing normal summers? Extremes always occur somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But more to the point, what is the role of climate alarmism\/activism in human discomfort and even death from heat waves? A recent AP story\u2013\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/europe-heat-dome-study-climate-change-8633dbe64319523484c8feabf2205234\">Europe\u2019s Extreme Heat Would Be Impossible Without Climate Change, Scientists Say<\/a>\u201c\u2013begs this question. Where is the study\/story \u201cEurope\u2019s Heat Crisis Exacerbated by Climate Policy\u201d? The paucity of air conditioning (etc.) from high electricity prices and even government mandates is the major problem, it turns out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid heat misery, the rush to purchase small A\/C units is on. But some political jurisdictions steeled on climate concern do not allow such acts of self-preservation. Paris Mayor Emmanuel Gr\u00e9goire (Parti Socialiste) wants only public cooling for the most vulnerable, not \u201cthe scourge\u201d of home A\/C. \u201cTo adapt together,\u201d he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/2026\/06\/27\/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-colle\/\">said<\/a>, \u201cwe need to change our way of life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Current Green Dilemma<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/billmckibben.com\/\">Bill McKibben<\/a>&nbsp;in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/illmckibben.substack.com\/p\/and-so-climate-returns\">recent 2,150-word essay<\/a>&nbsp;failed to mention air conditioning once. A week later, he wrote: \u201cThere has been much pointless social media back-and-forth about air conditioning in Europe, which of course we need now,\u201d he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/billmckibben.substack.com\/p\/youre-paying-the-bills-buddy\">wrote<\/a>, adding parenthetically: \u201cWe need it even more desperately in Asia, South America, and Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps this article in the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;between McKibben\u2019s two posts got his attention. Michael D. Shear and<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Jeanna Smialek\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/26\/world\/europe\/europe-heat-climate-change-politics.html\">As Europe Sweats, Some Politicians Talk of Air-Conditioning, Not Climate Action\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;(June 26, 2026) began:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heat-related deaths and disruptions to daily life are forcing politicians to reckon, in different ways, with a rapidly warming planet\u2026. Increasingly, the answer from right-wing politicians is to focus on a short-term fix that almost everyone agrees is necessary\u2013the installation of air-conditioning units in European homes, schools, public buildings and hospitals\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In France, far-right politicians who have advocated cutting net zero initiatives hope to gain from the heat wave, using it to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/12\/world\/europe\/heat-waves-france-air-conditioning.html?eafs_enabled=false\">accuse the government of failing to make the country more resilient<\/a>, but also as a cultural issue against the hard left, which has often opposed the use of air-conditioning on environmental grounds. \u201cIf I am elected president, I will put into place a massive air-conditioning plan,\u201d Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Rally party, pledged on Friday, \u201cstarting in places with the most vulnerable populations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The climate campaigners are in a difficult spot, the&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em>&nbsp;article continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the context of northern Europe\u2019s traditionally mild, temperate climate, some left-wing and green parties opposed air-conditioning and have instead favored&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/20\/realestate\/building-construction-emissions-climate-change.html\">renovating buildings<\/a>&nbsp;with architectural fixes to keep them cool when it gets hot. But the dangers to health posed by this week\u2019s heat wave are piling pressure on that view \u2014 and changing minds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to a local plea by a municipal leader for residents to use fans and plant a new tree, one politician responded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is absurd that all governments in our country, under pressure from left-green mumbo-jumbo, advise against the use of air-conditioning. The most efficient and best solution. How many deaths would the government already have on its conscience with this kind of absurd advice?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s good enough for the last word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>[1]<\/strong>&nbsp;Paul Ehrlich and Richard Harriman,&nbsp;<em>How to Be a Survivor<\/em>, Ballantine Books, 1971), pp 73\u201374.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf I am elected president, I will put into place a massive air-conditioning plan, starting in places with the most vulnerable populations.\u201d \u2013 Marine Le Pen, leader, National Rally Party (French National Assembly)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":453447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691820794,691839433,691819450,691843904,691843902,691843903,691821812],"class_list":["post-453442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-air-conditioning","tag-arch-doomster-paul-ehrlich","tag-green-energy-2","tag-current-green-dilemma","tag-jimmy-carters-thermostat-police","tag-paris-mayor-emmanuel-gregoire-parti-socialiste","tag-summer-heat","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Air-Conditioning-vs-Climate-Activism-UK-EU-Face-the-Music.png?fit=1536%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1TXA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":453158,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=453158","url_meta":{"origin":453442,"position":0},"title":"In France, The Government Tries To Prevent The People From Getting Air Conditioning","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/30\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"A remarkable feature of governments in Europe is the extent to which they operate explicitly against the interest of their citizens and voters. 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