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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.”
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
Keep in mind that this is more of a Western Europe phenomenon, where people learned the wrong lessons from the 20th century totalitarism. The countries that are affected by it are:
* UK (maybe with Ireland)
* France
* Germany
* Netherlands
* Belgium
* Switzerland (because UN and many environuts have their HQ there. IPCC is there too I think)
* Possibly in a lesser extent Sweden, Spain, Italy (even though Spain and Italy have no issue with AC)
People from other European countries are amused by this entire scandal. Its so stupid.
What's funny about this is Europeans when they think of AC Units always draw them as those free standing portable ones. They have no concept at all about how our houses are built with internal HVAC systems and the good cold air literally comes in out of unobtrusive vents in the floor or ceiling of the room. Euros literally have no concept of what it looks like. So here ya go.
The system is usually powered by an external heat pump, usually placed behind the house in the backyard, though occasionally they can be roof mounted. They look like this.
Those portable AC units with the tube you put out the window are actually not very good at the job and more energy intensive then one of these integrated systems.
almost 70k burgers die to guns every year (including suicides) out of ~350m people
175k dead yurops out of 750 million is almost identical per capita
our deaths can be prevented by getting AC
your deaths can be prevented by getting rid of niggers
guess which is more feasible
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
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.
A lot of European hospitals don't have AC though. Like... the one place you'd expect a controlled climate would be mandatory simply because of all the sick people there, but no.
I believe those are called refrigerators. They work the same incidentally. But for some reason Euros will happily have a fridge but not an AC. Strange that.
I believe those are called refrigerators. They work the same incidentally. But for some reason Euros will happily have a fridge but not an AC. Strange that.
Certain drugs need to be stored between 68F and 77F so I suppose you could purpose build a fridge that didn't actually keep things cold but simply maintained comfortable room temperature...
How many of the "heat deaths" are from people suffocating after getting inside these retard-fridges?
We do have tiny medicine fridges built specifically for storing drugs and cosmetics within a certain temperature range, and camping cool boxes for food that can also be used for drug and cosmetics storage.
I love having the AC cranked while wearing a comfy sweater inside all day lounging, just knowing dirty french retards are sweltering in the heat because they are too fucktarded to just put in some air conditioning.
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.
The table on Page 1 mapping European Cities to American ones lists northern states as comparable in some cases. It even lists Canada twice. Canada!
If those equivalencies are fair, the frogs are complaining about Wisconsin level weather. And while Wisconsin isn't a tippy tip northern state that touches Canada... It's pretty far up there.
They have no concept at all about how our houses are built with internal HVAC systems and the good cold air literally comes in out of unobtrusive vents in the floor or ceiling of the room.
About five years ago I replaced a 25-30 year old central air unit and it runs so much better. Modern units are incredibly efficient when you maintain them well.
All the laughing aside, it’s insane hospitals, schools, and nursing homes typically don’t have ac over there. HVAC systems also control moisture which is pretty important for inhibiting mold growth. How do they deal with that? My ac will run once it senses humidity getting too high even if the house is relatively cool. It seems like places like the UK that have a lot of rain should be using it just to keep mold growth down in hospitals and nursing homes.
Even Alaska gets a few hot days. 90+ degrees in Anchorage are common for June and July. Fort Yukon actually holds the States highest recorded temperature of 100 Degrees freedom, which is 37 degrees commie. Way back in 1915 incidentally before the global warming hysteria. Fort Yukon is also right on the Arctic circle.
Which all just goes to point out that when we are talking about "the climate" the Earth tends to be pretty neutral all things considered with extremes only really existing at the poles and at the equator. Alot more goes into what the given temperature is then just your position north or south of the equator. Temperature variance is way more dependent on how far you are from the ocean, and whether or not there are mountains in the way of where you are. Along with which way prevailing winds blow storms. The Sahara isn't a hot, desolate wasteland with temperatures in the high 40's commie because of where it is relative to the equator or the arctic circle. Its a hot and dry wasteland because its cut off from the Atlantic and Indian oceans prevailing winds blowing storms in, along with the Mediterranean Sea's micro climate.
Europe is sweltering right now because of the Pacific El Nino, not global warming. Storm activity in North America has become super charged, and the trade winds have been shoved far to the north, pushing the cool air Europe usually gets from the Atlantic north of the European peninsula. Which is why Iceland is experiencing a very cool summer right now. Its only 47 Degrees freedom in Reykjavik right now, which is 8 degrees commie.
Even Alaska gets a few hot days. 90+ degrees in Anchorage are common for June and July. Fort Yukon actually holds the States highest recorded temperature of 100 Degrees freedom, which is 37 degrees commie. Way back in 1915 incidentally before the global warming hysteria. Fort Yukon is also right on the Arctic circle.
Which all just goes to point out that when we are talking about "the climate" the Earth tends to be pretty neutral all things considered with extremes only really existing at the poles and at the equator. Alot more goes into what the given temperature is then just your position north or south of the equator. Temperature variance is way more dependent on how far you are from the ocean, and whether or not there are mountains in the way of where you are. Along with which way prevailing winds blow storms. The Sahara isn't a hot, desolate wasteland with temperatures in the high 40's commie because of where it is relative to the equator or the arctic circle. Its a hot and dry wasteland because its cut off from the Atlantic and Indian oceans prevailing winds blowing storms in, along with the Mediterranean Sea's micro climate.
Europe is sweltering right now because of the Pacific El Nino, not global warming. Storm activity in North America has become super charged, and the trade winds have been shoved far to the north, pushing the cool air Europe usually gets from the Atlantic north of the European peninsula. Which is why Iceland is experiencing a very cool summer right now. Its only 47 Degrees freedom in Reykjavik right now, which is 8 degrees commie.
And I'm proud to be an American,
