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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.”
Eorupoors making AC a political issue and refuse to use it because AC is an americanism. And it is important to be against US and Trump.
I am sure that it is not because they are europoor and could not afford to run the AC, even if they wanted to, considering their ridiculous energy prices.
By the way just in case anyone was wondering this very French looking individual is France's Deputy Secretary Of The Interior who put out the statement blaming Trump for global warming.
By the way just in case anyone was wondering this very French looking individual is France's Deputy Secretary Of The Interior who put out the statement blaming Trump for global warming. Ver archivo adjunto 9210146
My local weather forecast this week is almost identical (slightly higher actually) to France's right now and it's beautiful. the perfect time of year to go outside and do things. my ac hasn't even been running. This is absolutely mindblowing to me. No wonder europe is so fucked, a little sun just fucking kills them. imagine thinking 80 degrees F is hot. unbelievable. I almost want to believe this whole thing is a psyop because there's no way an actual human being experiences mildly warm weather and implodes like that. How did we become the dominant species on the planet if so? There's no way.
I bought a window mounted unit at the hardware store for under $200 USD. It's in the high 90's F and humid outside right now, and it's a comfy dry 72 inside. Doesn't draw much power, and if you only run it in the heat of the day, it's pretty affordable.
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.
1/4 of households have AC.
3/4 people think AC murders the planet. I wonder how many still benefit from head of house running AC "without their approval"
1/6 would (performatively) suffer to save the planet.
I'd bet the fact that you can't hide a window mounted unit the way you can hide a tub of ice cream means that you invite lunatics the moment you get AC. Who wants to deal with a bunch of banshees at the door pretending to lecture you on how evil your AC unit is while secretly just standing there so they can mooch it for themselves?
No red-hot chainsaws for them, that might be hot enough to cauterize the wound and save their lives. Dunk that shit in icy water so they fuck it more enthusiastically before they realize what they're doing.
My local weather forecast this week is almost identical (slightly higher actually) to France's right now and it's beautiful. the perfect time of year to go outside and do things. my ac hasn't even been running. This is absolutely mindblowing to me. No wonder europe is so fucked, a little sun just fucking kills them. imagine thinking 80 degrees F is hot. unbelievable. I almost want to believe this whole thing is a psyop because there's no way an actual human being experiences mildly warm weather and implodes like that. How did we become the dominant species on the planet if so? There's no way.
I compared my local weather to france and the uk and I had no idea europe didn't have regular ass hot american summers until now. It won't be long until they drop this shit about no air conditioning, the arabs and the africans will be fine but not the natives.
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.
Oh no, I didn't know France was so hot. I'll whip up a big batch of cummies to shower Paris with. Should cool them right off, and improve the smell too.
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.
Sure they use energy. But so do electric fans. And as you say, they have nuclear anyway. So it doesnt even matter if they run electric heat pumps anyway. It wont add to carbon output if you absolutely give a shit about that. Running an electric heater in the winter is way more energy intensive then an electric AC in the summer.
I've visited western France since I was a very little kid in the 90s, they've ALWAYS had summer heatwaves, even really bad ones that push into the low 40s, it's just typical continental delusion that makes them turn their noses up at having built in modern AC. Old commieblocks in Siberia and remote cabins Canada have long been covered in reverse cycle split AC systems, because not only do they cool well; they also work really well efficiently heating your home in the winter.
I'll finally get around to burning those tires behind my house, I guess. I wish it was actually possible to cause the climate to change with CO2, I'd purposely breathe more just to watch Europor melt.
Anyway, I'm surprised they haven't combined this new bitchfest with the previous bitching about data center heat production from a few weeks ago.
It’s an El Niño year, and an omega-blocking pattern in the Gulf Stream driven jet stream over Europe.
It has happened before and it will happen again.
Give people AC, and cheap nuclear. Stop cutting down green areas in cities and building retarded mega hives with heat absorbing everything. Be sensible about heat and don’t make kids do PE at a boiling hot nursery, give them some ice cream instead.
then the left can go back to screeching online with their cheap chinesium consumer electronics with rare earths mined by child slaves and which cause untold pollution.
It's trying to make it to 60 here, next to the Pacific. Almost no homes have AC here, but larger public buildings have it. In about an hour and a half the breeze starts coming in off the ocean. Just open the window, hardly even need a fan.
Must be nice. Greetings from Redneck Vietnam. 6am and I'm already tired of this shit. By the way, that 3mph wind is a fucking lie.
EDIT: 9:30AM, I just heard cicadas fly over my house screaming from the trees. It is officially Hot™. Have to get some grass cut later, may stick a feather in my hair and do my silly heyahoya dances for some cloud coverage.
3:27PM: Yard work is done, weather has probably peaked for the day.
I understand that people don't install AC in certain countries in Europe because of money expenses or just that there are too few hot days the entire year.
But being so pathetic and refusing the right of others to install AC systems? The claim that it causes global warming is so batshit insane.
A thing I also don't understand is why are so many casualties in France, they make such a high fuss about it. These are not absurd temperatures, never seen before. In my country, Romania, with the same temperatures, you rarely hear of people dying, even with no AC.
This to me means:
- elites adopting views that luxuries should not get in the hands of the commoner. This attitude existed in some communist countries, where getting a car was hard and you had to wait a decade to get one.
They also refused to expand motorways or boulevards, thinking the poor peasants will never own cars. Man, they were so wrong.
I think this is most obvious in the EU building happening, where floor 8th and higher had AC but those under had it disabled.
-elites being so brainwashed into new-age environmental nonsense, they are trully afraid of a "climate apocalipse", thinking extinction is real
- A theory i heard is that their public healthcare service is as poor as in my country, but while we don't blame the deaths on weather but on the shitty medical system, in France they might try to shift that blame on global warming. Its weird how they don't realize that even without global warming, a 40C temp would still be 38C.
- They might also try to mask the issue that the electric grid is so unstable due to the renewables (they should instead be used for batteries and local consumption, not delivering electricity in the European electric grid).
- This event might be used as an avenue to justify their hatred of Trump or American way of living. I disagree with certain American aspects of life, but having a HVAC is great and many should strive for that.
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.
