{"id":467138,"date":"2026-08-30T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=467138"},"modified":"2026-08-30T11:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:11:12","slug":"adapt-europe-stop-whining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=467138","title":{"rendered":"Adapt, Europe (stop whining)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cCrank up the cooling.\u201d (WSJ, below)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It is adaptation time. Mitigation has failed, and no policy change, however radical, can affect global or regional climate for decades, if ever. As stated in a recent article in the New York Times<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate change means that the issue is most likely here to stay. Across Europe, \u201cwe think the summers are hot now,\u201d said Joan Ballester Claramunt, a research professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health who focuses on climate change and health. \u201cThe future that we\u2019re seeing, it could be much worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So, why didn\u2019t the alarmist community push for A\/C and other appliances to cool the air during the summer peak? They warned about \u2018hothouse Earth\u2019 but did nothing about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did climate mitigation policy work against adaptation directly and indirectly? Yes and yes. That is a major problem. In the name of social justice, climate campaigners are invited to replace wasteful, losing climate mitigation policies with here-and-now adaptation for the summer peak. For basic human needs. And now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex Epstein has identified \u201cclimate mastery\u201d as a feature of the modern energy sector (dense energies, only two centuries old). The EU\/UK can do today what was done by, for example, Houstonians a century ago: adapt and thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Wall Street Journal<\/em> editorial, \u201cThe Economic Case for European AC<\/a>,\u201d was noteworthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[Europe\u2019s] green disavowal of air conditioning comes at an economic cost. As the mercury rises, business productivity suffers along with the workforce.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Europe was a set-up for heat waves:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many European offices and apartment buildings were designed to retain heat, and air-conditioning penetration averages 19%, compared with some 90% in the U.S., according to a report this year by Allianz Research, an arm of the insurance company. One result: Even \u201cindoor workers are not insulated\u201d from the misery.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Policy implications?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Europe will face economic costs related to warming\u201ceven if ambitious climate mitigation goals are met,\u201d says a report last year from Assessing Climate Change Risk in Europe, a European Union-funded research effort. But the continent can reduce the harm by better adapting. That study found broader AC adoption could have annual economic benefits of \u20ac40 to \u20ac60 billion ($46 billion to $69 billion) by 2050. An\u201cimportant co-benefit\u201d would be fewer heat-related fatalities. Crank up the cooling.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mitigation has failed, and no policy change, however radical, can affect global or regional climate for decades, if ever.<\/p>\n

So, why didn\u2019t the alarmist community push for A\/C and other appliances to cool the air during the summer peak? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":467139,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Mitigation has failed, and no policy change, however radical, can affect global or regional climate for decades, if ever.\n\nSo, why didn't the alarmist community push for A\/C and other appliances to cool the air during the summer peak?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"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":[691820794,691845049,691845048,691818056,691822338,691818583,691818154,691837521],"class_list":["post-467138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-air-conditioning","tag-allianz-research","tag-barcelona-institute-for-global-health","tag-climate-change","tag-economic-costs","tag-europe","tag-net-zero","tag-new-york-times-nyt-2","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Xwu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":455469,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=455469","url_meta":{"origin":467138,"position":0},"title":"Climate Alarmists Sweat \u201cAircon\u201d (air conditioning)","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/14\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cThe multi-decade failure of climate mitigation policies has naturally given way to adaptation, which is the free-market, government-free approach to climate policy.\u201d","rel":"","context":"In \"Air Conditioning\"","block_context":{"text":"Air Conditioning","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=air-conditioning"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Climate-Alarmists-Sweat-Aircon-air-conditioning.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Climate-Alarmists-Sweat-Aircon-air-conditioning.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Climate-Alarmists-Sweat-Aircon-air-conditioning.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Climate-Alarmists-Sweat-Aircon-air-conditioning.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-ChatGPT-Climate-Alarmists-Sweat-Aircon-air-conditioning.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":403565,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=403565","url_meta":{"origin":467138,"position":1},"title":"False, New York Times, Climate Change Isn\u2019t Causing More European Heat Deaths","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"09\/20\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"In his The New York NYT (NYT) article, \u201cClimate Change\u2019s Toll in Europe This Summer: Thousands of Extra Deaths,\u201d reporter Raymond Zhong claims that severe heat in Europe this summer killed three times as many people as would have died in a world without human-caused warming. 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