{"id":454527,"date":"2026-07-07T11:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=454527"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:53:40","slug":"right-fortune-europes-heat-crisis-is-of-its-own-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=454527","title":{"rendered":"Right, Fortune, Europe\u2019s Heat Crisis Is of Its Own Making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"454532\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=454532\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Right-Fortune-Europes-Heat-Crisis-Is-of-Its-Own-Making.png?fit=1672%2C941&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1672,941\" 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  Right, Fortune, Europe\u2019s Heat Crisis Is of Its Own Making\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Right-Fortune-Europes-Heat-Crisis-Is-of-Its-Own-Making.png?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Right-Fortune-Europes-Heat-Crisis-Is-of-Its-Own-Making.png?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Right-Fortune-Europes-Heat-Crisis-Is-of-Its-Own-Making.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Right-Fortune-Europes-Heat-Crisis-Is-of-Its-Own-Making.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Right-Fortune-Europes-Heat-Crisis-Is-of-Its-Own-Making.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Right-Fortune-Europes-Heat-Crisis-Is-of-Its-Own-Making.png?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Right-Fortune-Europes-Heat-Crisis-Is-of-Its-Own-Making.png?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Right-Fortune-Europes-Heat-Crisis-Is-of-Its-Own-Making.png?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Right-Fortune-Europes-Heat-Crisis-Is-of-Its-Own-Making.png?w=1672&amp;ssl=1 1672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Right-Fortune-Europes-Heat-Crisis-Is-of-Its-Own-Making.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:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2026\/07\/right-fortune-europes-heat-crisis-is-of-its-own-making\/\">ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>By <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/author\/sburnett\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H. Sterling Burnett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Fortune<\/em>&nbsp;magazine published an article explaining that Europe\u2019s own policies have created the overheating problems being faced during the present heatwave, noting that by comparison the United States has dealt with similar heat easily over the decades.&nbsp;<em>Fortune<\/em>&nbsp;is right, Europe\u2019s persistent rejection and America\u2019s widespread adoption of air conditioning, not climate change, is the difference between the suffering many Europeans are experiencing during the present heat wave as compared to the relative comfort most Americans experience every summer. Air conditioning doesn\u2019t cause climate change but it does save lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/06\/30\/europe-heat-wave-air-conditioning-grid-crisis-us-gap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top climate tech exec: Europe is sweating through a heat crisis America solved decades ago<\/a>,\u201d Taco Engelaar describes the different responses and outcomes between Europe and America during periods of extended extremely hot temperatures. Engelaar writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The heat is on this week. As Europe sizzles amid another record-breaking heatwave, many American states are preparing for a similar event. A double whammy of heat and humidity is set to drive temperatures over 100\u00b0F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But while both sides of the Atlantic face the heat, the reality for families and businesses could not be further apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The difference, once again, is air conditioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find yourself in the U.S. this week and you\u2019ll likely move seamlessly between air-conditioned offices, malls, and homes, barely registering the heat outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Europe, that same week means hunting for a desk fan or racing to one of the few public spaces with real cooling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">European governments&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/paris-deputy-mayor-blames-united-states-carbon-emissions-deadly-heat-wave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blame U.S. air conditioning use for climate change<\/a>, in some cases going so far as to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/money\/consumer-affairs\/air-conditioning-torn-from-homes-under-net-zero-clampdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actively remove air conditioners<\/a>&nbsp;from homes. In their ill-considered pursuit of net zero to fight climate change, European elites stubbornly refuse to acknowledge the life saving benefits of air conditioning. Evidently, Europe\u2019s elites, who by and large have air conditioning installed in their own homes and the public buildings they find important, would rather use heat related deaths as a talking point to further the \u201cclimate change causes everything bad\u201d narrative than prevent such deaths by adopting air conditioning if that might marginally increase global carbon dioxide emissions. European elites\u2019 hypocrisy on the matter of air conditioning, \u201cair conditioning for we, but not for thee,\u201d shares much in common with the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s recent harangue about the use of air conditioning, as discussed in a previous&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2026\/03\/wrong-time-magazine-air-conditioners-are-saving-people-from-heat-not-causing-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Climate Realism<\/em>&nbsp;post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Air conditioning use contributes an extremely miniscule amount of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and thus, even if one thinks carbon dioxide is driving global warming, a marginal amount of temperature. A recent study in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7381235\/climate-change-air-conditioners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>, for example, found that \u201cif all low\u2011income regions gained the same access to air-conditioning as rich regions, related global emissions would jump dramatically\u2014adding up to 0.05\u00b0C extra warming even in the most climate\u2011friendly scenario.\u201d In fact, what the researchers found was that should hundreds of millions of poor people gain access to air conditioning it could, under some climate model scenarios, add 0.003\u20130.05\u2009\u00b0C of warming by 2050. But, leaving aside the flawed nature of climate models, even if accurate, that amount of warming, over the next 24 years, is so small no one is going to feel change, and no weather dynamics are going to be impacted by that minor variance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That modeled, virtually unmeasurable increase in future temperatures should be weighed against the tens of thousands of lives that research published in the&nbsp;<em>Journal of American Medical Association\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/413470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internal Medicine<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;and by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/sustainable-affordable-cooling-can-save-tens-of-thousands-of-lives-each-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Energy Agency<\/a>&nbsp;(IEA) show could be saved by expanding access to air conditioning. During periodic heatwaves in countries that naturally experience high temperatures, the adoption of widespread air conditioning use is rapidly becoming the most effective life saving measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLack of access to indoor cooling puts much of the global population at high risk for heat stress, adversely affecting thermal comfort, labour productivity, and human health,\u201d the IEA report said. \u201c[A]ccess to effective cooling has saved tens of thousands of lives . . . the average annual number of heat-related deaths averted by AC increase[d] 3-fold, reaching an estimated 190 000 lives saved per year during 2019-2021.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accordingly, any effort to limit the expansion of air conditioning use is logically going to lead to more sickness and probably death, especially in vulnerable populations like the elderly. With this truth in evidence, how can Europe\u2019s leaders actively prevent wider adoption and use of air conditioning? It\u2019s unconscionable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be fair, Engelaar notes that much of the infrastructure and housing stock in Europe was built before air conditioning exited or became widely available, making retrofitting expensive. Costly, but if lives saved and GDP growth matter, worthwhile. Indeed, in the United States, most houses and public buildings built before air conditioning was invented had air conditioning installed decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One hurdle to Europe expanding air conditioning use its outdated electric power infrastructure. Europe\u2019s power grid, as currently constituted, is ill-suited to handle additional demand for electricity needed for widespread air conditioning adoption. This is true, pointing to the need for expanded and improved reliable electric power infrastructure and generating sources, rather than allowing people to die unnecessarily from heat. One step to improving Europe\u2019s electric power supply is to end its net zero ambitions, which have lead to the premature closure of baseload power plants fueled by coal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Engelaar, by contrast, offers as a solution, expanded use of solar, writing \u201c. . . accelerate solar connections \u2014 solar flourishes in the heat and could sustainably power energy-hungry AC systems.\u201d More solar, however, will not solve the problem. Heat comes on cloudy humid days in the summer as well, when solar energy production might be low. Also, solar doesn\u2019t work at night \u2013 especially on hot summer nights when demand for home air conditioning use often peaks. In addition, solar panels lose efficiency during heatwaves, with the power they supply dropping off just when it is needed most. Solar panels lose 0.3 percent to 0.5 percent of their efficiency for every 1.8\u00b0F above 77\u00b0F. Thus, during a heatwave like Europe is currently experiencing, the expected electricity from solar installations could be substantially lower than the grid might require. For instance, on a 100\u00b0F day, because actual panel temperatures might reach up to 149\u00b0 F, the power solar provides would be 12 percent to 20 percent less than expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Fortune<\/em>&nbsp;should be applauded for publishing Engelaar\u2019s piece acknowledging that Europe\u2019s leaders\u2019 energy policies, not climate change, are to blame for the deaths and lost economic activity caused by extreme heat. If Europe\u2019s leaders keep their heads in the sand on this matter, changes in government might be necessary. Greater mainstream and social media attention to this matter is warranted. Indeed, it is literally a matter of life and death for some people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune magazine published an article explaining that Europe\u2019s own policies have created the overheating problems being faced during the present heatwave, noting that by comparison the United States has dealt with similar heat easily over the decades. 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