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Paris official hits back at mockery over lack of air conditioning, saying America shares responsibility for record-breaking temperatures
A Paris official has said she holds the US partially responsible for the record-breaking heatwave in France.
The comments were made as part of a scathing rebuke to American tourists, immigrants and expats who have been criticising France for its lack of air conditioning across the country.
Over the past week, the transatlantic discourse online has also been heating up, with some Americans – many living in desert and tropical climes in the southern US – mocking the French and Western Europeans for not being able to withstand temperatures to which they are accustomed to every year.
“Dear American journalists and social media ‘influencers’: for days, some of you have been criticising and making fun of Paris because the city does not have A/C in every room...OMG, this is so rich!” wrote Audrey Pulvar, deputy mayor of Paris for international relations, on social media.
“As the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, you bear a significant amount of responsibility for global warming and the consequences we, in France, are experiencing. Your cities, which are 90 per cent air conditioned, are not unrelated to this.”
After listing Paris’s green initiatives, Ms Pulvar ended her posts by criticising the US for what she described as the country’s disdain for the planet. “So please, enough with the lecture. Just start doing your part. Best regards.”
Unlike the US, where air conditioning is common, in France only one in four households has air conditioning. Historically, the French have been sceptical about air conditioning: an Ipsos survey published earlier this month found that 78 per cent of French people believe that it’s bad for the environment and one in six respondents said they would rather suffer for the sake of the planet.
But last week’s record-breaking temperatures have shown that attitudes have shifted, with retailers across the country selling out of portable air conditioning units and videos capturing shoppers forming long queues and tearing at pallets holding units freshly offloaded from delivery trucks.
Preliminary mortality figures released Sunday by Public Health France show that the country has registered 1,000 more deaths than previous months since the peak of the heatwave on Wednesday, when temperatures edged past the 40C threshold in many parts of France. The number of home deaths also spiked by 40 per cent during that time.
But the minister of health also warned that heat-related illnesses can last long after the heatwave has ended, and that the mortality rate could rise.
“The extreme heat of the last few days is having a delayed effect, particularly on vulnerable people but also on some younger people, who sometimes turn up at A&E five to ten days after the heatwave,” Stephanie Rist said in an interview with La Tribune newspaper on Sunday.
“For people with chronic conditions, this effect can last for several weeks,” she added, saying she expected “the strain on the hospital system to continue even after temperatures have fallen”.
In Paris, emergency services responded to 3,400 calls – four times higher than average – and treated 30 cardiac arrests during a 24-hour period ending Friday.
In the department of Yvelines, west of Paris, the heatwave claimed the life of a 12-year-old girl who died of heatstroke on Friday, while her 15-year-old brother was saved by paramedics.
So far, 74 people seeking respite from the heat have also died by drowning in France, including a man who drowned in Paris’s Canal Saint-Martin while swimming outside the authorised swimming zone.
Throughout the week, desperate Parisians living in overheated apartments slept in public parks, turning green spaces such as the Buttes-Chaumont in the northeast into an open-air hotel, or booked hotel rooms with air conditioning, steps from their apartment.
While thunderstorms helped cool the French capital Sunday night, lightning strikes cut power to 36,000 households in Aisne, Yvelines and Indre-et-Loire.
In Paris, 1,300 households have also been without electricity for 30 hours after outages hit the south and eastern parts of the city Saturday, cutting power to lifts in high-rise apartments, fridges and fans.
“There’s still time to knock on your neighbour’s door if they’re isolated,” Ms Rist said Sunday. “Everyone must take responsibility.”
Honestly, these threads have convinced me to never visit the US. Weather sounds fucking horrible if it's remotely like this heatwave on the regular.
Staying cool and comfy in my swamp.
Honestly, these threads have convinced me to never visit the US. Weather sounds fucking horrible if it's remotely like this heatwave on the regular.
Staying cool and comfy in my swamp.
That’s why a lot of us do stuff at night and avoid going out in the middle of the day. At least in certain parts of the country, it doesn’t get hot in the northern states.
Honestly, these threads have convinced me to never visit the US. Weather sounds fucking horrible if it's remotely like this heatwave on the regular.
Staying cool and comfy in my swamp.
The tradeoff is the weather around this area is good/tolerable for every season except summer. Freezing weather catches a lot of southern cities off guard because there's seldom a reason to prepare for it, but hot to brutal summers are usually a given. Once you've lived in it a while, you become acclimated to it. Or so I've heard, anyways. Been here going on three and a half decades and it sucks every time, but at least it doesn't kill me. I too like to chill in my swamp when summer isn't beating my ass, but I share the same lattitude as north Africa. Dry heat vs wet heat is a very real thing. When humidity hits 75% and up, adding layers is only increasing your chance of a heat stroke. Had a friend who lived in Arizona most of his life who used to talk crazy shit about humid climates not being as bad as people say, only for him to sweat like a whore in church and be an absolute miserable dog through his first few summers here. It "builds character".
Currently, my dormitory doesnt have AC, since its a student commie block, but I would love to have one if I had money and the permission to install it.
You may want to consider a smaller AC alternative like what is known as a "portable mini AC" that really functions more like a swamp cooler.
I used to work a job where I spent a lot of time outside with a central shack-like building as a base of operations. It did not have AC so for very hot days I acquired such a device. To operate it required a source of electricity, like an outlet, and water that is preferably cold. You add the water into a chamber on the top of the device, which then sucks in hot air and uses the water to cool it before blowing it out. While not particularly powerful it should be pretty effective for a smaller enclosed space like a dormitory.
Such devices can be acquired on Amazon, AliExpress, Temu, or other such online shopping websites. They are very simple so even the cheap ones will work. If you don't have the money or permission for a full AC unit, this is a viable alternative for your situation.
That’s why a lot of us do stuff at night and avoid going out in the middle of the day. At least in certain parts of the country, it doesn’t get hot in the northern states.
Yes it does. It going to be 100F and humid this week in the northeast. That’s like 38C iirc? This isn’t uncommon in July for this part of the country either, despite media doomering.
The idea that air conditioning units contribute to global warming is so absurd.
Euros...you...you do know most ACs are electric heat pumps....right? They do the same thing your electric heater in winter does. Just...in reverse. Instead of pumping the hot air inside, they pump the hot air outside. And then run fresh air over a chilled coil. That doesnt emit anything because its literally just an electrically chilled coil of super cooled Freon. Which isn't released into the atmosphere unless you are an idiot that smashes the coils with a hammer. And even if it is released it does diddly squat.
I bet your electric heat pumps in the winter put out more global warming then Americans do in the winter.
What you are missing is that they think that using the electricity at all for comfort or convenience that they deem frivolous is the issue. Even if they think heat pumps are environmentally superior to traditional AC units, it's what they perceive as the frivolity of electricity being used for keeping people cool that they take issue with; they think you should just suffer through this for the good of the world. That's why they don't use clothes dryers either, they literally think that by hanging up their clothes on a rack, turning off streetlights at midnight which allow migrant rape gangs to operate in greater camoflauge, and suffering in sweltering heat that they are saving the planet. You are dealing with a creature whose delusions and self-righteousness have been blatantly encouraged and weaponized against their own self-interests and they lap it up gleefully, there has never been a niggercattle in human history greater than the average Eurofag, except maybe the average Canadian.
I'm in one of few US places where AC is optional due to cooler weather outside of the ~10 days of heat waves, so I understand the reticence of wanting to use AC, along with generally hating the feel of AC air.
Anyone who lives in a place like Florida knows AC is mandatory and will pay for it.
Don’t get me started on that. I have a dryer and have had people tell me it’s not environmentally friendly. Fuck that. If I lived on some Greek island I’d dry things outdoors all year but you just can’t in a British climate.
We used to have high ceilings in homes and a pulley/laundry maid type pulley thing and that actually worked well. But that doesn’t work in the type of houses they build now - low ceilings and insufficient ventilation. It just creates damp and my goodness the sheer amount of laundry a family creates.
These are always the people who insist you can go weeks without washing anything as well. Leftists are plague rats. Electricity for AC bad, for EVs good!
Oh and another thing is the bloody eco settings in washing machines. Mine broke a couple of years ago so I had to find a new one. I eventually managed to find one that wasn’t ‘smart’ but its default setting is a THREE HOUR FORTY MINUTE cycle. It must use very little water I’m sure but it wrecks clothes. It’s the cycle equivalent of bashing the shit out of it in a rock by a puddle and it doesn’t even get things clean.
You now have to, before every fucking wash, press the ‘fast’ button which is marketed as being fast but which is really just ‘turn the fucking eco settings off, use normal amounts of water and power.’
It’s all so tiresome.
You guys laugh about the Arabs and Africans feeling right at home in this weather, but on my last 2 trips to the Maghreb, I observed that AC was far more common there (even in really shitty parts of Tunis) than up here in France. Despite the fact that it was less hot there (I wasn’t in the desert obviously) than here, FML. Canicule is due to come back next week pls kill or adopt me.
Don’t get me started on that. I have a dryer and have had people tell me it’s not environmentally friendly. Fuck that. If I lived on some Greek island I’d dry things outdoors all year but you just can’t in a British climate.
We used to have high ceilings in homes and a pulley/laundry maid type pulley thing and that actually worked well. But that doesn’t work in the type of houses they build now - low ceilings and insufficient ventilation. It just creates damp and my goodness the sheer amount of laundry a family creates.
These are always the people who insist you can go weeks without washing anything as well. Leftists are plague rats. Electricity for AC bad, for EVs good!
Oh and another thing is the bloody eco settings in washing machines. Mine broke a couple of years ago so I had to find a new one. I eventually managed to find one that wasn’t ‘smart’ but its default setting is a THREE HOUR FORTY MINUTE cycle. It must use very little water I’m sure but it wrecks clothes. It’s the cycle equivalent of bashing the shit out of it in a rock by a puddle and it doesn’t even get things clean.
You now have to, before every fucking wash, press the ‘fast’ button which is marketed as being fast but which is really just ‘turn the fucking eco settings off, use normal amounts of water and power.’
It’s all so tiresome.
Even as a Canadian, the absolute absurd levels of climate zealotry and self-righteousness surrounding environmentalism I experienced on a regular daily basis just throughout the normal course of my day in France was mindblowing. The average European is insane when it comes to this shit, they have this weird guilt regarding the use of electrical appliances that simply cannot be observed anywhere else on earth. It's like WWII wartime rationing mixed with genuine belief that the world is perpetually going to end in 5 years, mixed with self-hatred of being white and being technologically more advanced than everyone else, therefore we should be punished for "destroying the environment" with our invention and creation of technology over the past several centuries. There's a lot of hippie fruitloops in Canada, but most people, even most leftists will happily use a dryer or AC/heat pump in summer and not be a judgemental faggot about anyone else using it
Even as a Canadian, the absolute absurd levels of climate zealotry and self-righteousness surrounding environmentalism I experienced on a regular daily basis just throughout the normal course of my day in France was mindblowing.
That's why it's important to laugh at them, call them conspiracy theorists, and remind them that as an American (or Canadian in your case), we believe in science, not superstition.
I like to imagine everytime I exhale, the miniscule amount of carbon dioxide excreted from my lungs specifically worsens the living conditions of the French.
