It is summer and that means it is warmer than it is in winter.
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Hot weather in America means going to lakes and having BBQs but it also means that when we are indoors we use air conditioning to keep the temperatures pleasant. The basics of air conditioning were invented at the very beginning of the 20th century in 1902 by Willis H. Carrier, and of course Willis Carrier was a White man because who else has invented worthwhile advancements over the last 500 years?
Air conditioning was not always as ubiquitous in the U.S. as it is today, in my younger days it was common for cars in northern states to not have AC and many homes also did not have central air, especially the further north you went. Our home when we lived in northern Michigan just below the Mackinac Bridge didn’t have central air because we really didn’t need it. Now, I am not sure you can even buy a car without air conditioning and even in northern state I would assume almost all new home builds include central air.
This is in keeping with contemporary American thinking: Why be uncomfortable if you don’t need to be?
In the winter I could set the thermostat at 60 degrees and wear a sweater around the house, but I prefer to set it around 66-68 degrees. Americans have spent 250 years creating a prosperous society through enormous sacrifice. I think the fellas at Valley Forge would want me to be comfy in the summer time.
Meanwhile in the cradle of modern human civilization, Mother Europe:
According to Grok Europe, with a population of 450 million in the EU, experiences a crazy number of heat-related deaths per year….
Key Annual Estimates
- ~175,000 heat-related deaths per year on average in Europe (WHO/UN data, based on 2000–2019). This accounts for about 36% of the global total (~489,000).news.un.org
- Recent hot summers show large spikes: ~62,000 in summer 2022, ~51,000 in 2023, ~63,000 in 2024. Over four recent years, the total exceeded 200,000.who.int
- These are mostly among the elderly (often 65+ or 75+), in urban areas, and during heat waves. Many occur indoors due to poor nighttime cooling in buildings designed for heat retention.
Meanwhile in the U.S. with a population of around 350 million, also according to Grok….
Officially reported heat-related deaths in the US average around 700–1,300 per year historically, but have risen significantly in recent years to over 2,000 annually, with 2023 seeing a record high of 2,325.
If I am doing my math correctly, Engineer Jim please correct me if not, that means that the U.S. has around one heat related death per 175,000 people annually on average.
Europe on the other hand sees one heat related death per 2,571 people annually on average, or 68 times more heat related deaths per capita.
Notice also who is dying from completely preventable heat related deaths….
These are mostly among the elderly (often 65+ or 75+), in urban areas, and during heat waves.
The “immigrants” in Europe are mostly younger, so the people dying in Europe from preventable heat related causes are mostly White, actual Europeans who are dying because of the climate change cult.
In the middle of a heat wave, the obvious thing to do is….remove your air conditioning?
Remember that the British used to rule much of the world. Now they let old British pensioners die in heat waves because of “climate change”.
As the quip goes, the carbon They want to reduce….is you.
This guy gets it….
Meanwhile the frog eaters are blaming, you guessed it, America for the heat wave:
Well of course they do.
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.
Only one out of four French households have air conditioning, something that is widely available and has been for decades, but apparently that is my fault.
As I have asserted on any number of occasions, if you really care about “The Environment”, the first thing you should do is to stop subsidizing and incentivizing Africans and South Asians, Middle Easterners, etc. from breeding like stinky and stupid rabbits.
That isn’t what the people inexplicably in charge are doing. Instead they are encouraging non-Whites in the third world to reproduce and then welcoming the excess population to move to White nations with the promise of free shit and **nudge, nudge, wink, wink** access to White women and girls of any age they want.
Simultaneously the White people living in those nations are told they must sacrifice and suffer, stoically accepting a much lower standard of living in order to make the dreams of violent simpletons come true. The dreams of the White people and their posterity already living in those nations are both irrelevant and racist. The sacrifice is our duty and the suffering is punishment because our forefathers didn’t suck at life.
Air conditioning is not just a comfortable convenience. For the elderly it is life saving. When a society prioritizes the needs of invaders over the very lives of their most vulnerable, it is a sign of a society that needs to be burned to the ground and replaced with one with it’s priorities straightened out.
“Europe’s record heat has overwhelmed Paris mortuaries…”
Shouldn’t they have figured this whole mortuary problem out back when Covid was all the rage? I mean Paris has been around forever and it’s not like their medical industry was run by witch doctors. They’ve had centuries to refine their mortuaries. Now they’re overwhelmed?
It’s just more of the media selling panic and narrative.
On the plus side for the French the heat really doesn’t make their BO smell any worse than normal.
I love air conditioning! The whole refrigeration technology has saved more lives than about anything but clean water.
I recall Pope Francis coming out against refrigeration in one of his stupid rants. I’m betting that wherever he is now, he’d be happy for a bit of AC.
The funny part is that if you want AC, go to your closest gov’t building. Step in a post office and you’ll catch a cold due to the temperature drop. The rulers never deal with what they expect the subjects to accept.
I agree with air conditioning (I live in germany and the last three days were hell).
I bought a portable air conditioning unit one year ago and I have only two regrets:
I didnt buy it earlier.
I bought the lowest one with only 7.000 BTU (for a room of 20 squaremeters.) If I stay with a portable one I need one with more power.
But I am already looking for a air conditioning that can be permanently installed. The price they say is between EUR 2.000 and 8.000 depending on the size of the room / apartment you want to cool down.
You will need an 18,000 BTU machine to cool 60 square meters. The size of a small apartment here in the US.
We measure our AC by the ton. That’s how serious we can be buddy.
Yea lots of dying when the power goes out and places with lots of elderly are going find out the hard way how fast disease spreads when there are lots of bodies laying or floating around…. Looking at you east and south coasters…
I struggle to understand how AC does anything for “climate change” other than the climate changing in your crib.
Sure, the consume power (so what, so do data centers), but they are closed systems.
BTW – wonder how many office buildings and data centers are air conditioned there.
In a similar vein, last week a medical colleague (okay junior colleague, but still) started a rant about how a particular imaging method (MRI) was “so bad for the environment” and global warming. I lost patience and snapped “Any Westerner THAT worried about ‘global warming’ ought to kill himself after arranging to have his corpse composted instead of cremated.”
I was asked (rhetorically by someone disapproving), “Uh, isn’t that a bit harsh?”
“Maybe so, but it doesn’t make it not true.”
And it worked because those people have STFU about global warming (at least around me). And they’re all enjoying their nice American aircon right now. Except for the one that flew to Africa on a safari vacation. (Because so concerned about Teh Warmenimg obviously. 🙄 The flight generates around 3-5 tonnes of carbon per person round trip, for those unaware. It’s like five years of carpooling.)
Oh yeah, a not uncommon mode of heat-related death among urban US elderly is that they HAVE an aircon unit, but a window one. Which elderly living on the ground floor level take out because it’s very difficult to prevent someone from doing a home invasion by pullling out the AC and forcing the window open enough to crawl in.
Call me weak, but I don’t know that I could live without a/c. As far back as I remember, we had a/c (window units until I was 5, and then central a/c in the house I grew up in). When I lived overseas, no one local had a/c and they all seemed to consider its use somewhat unnatural. I remember being told in Jamaica and Singapore, when the a/c needed repairs, that I wasn’t supposed to use it all the time!
There is nothing ‘noble’ about unnecessary suffering. Plus, as others have mentioned elsewhere, a lot of the US is significantly further south than Europe and it gets a lot hotter here. I give full credit to those hardy and tough European settlers who pushed through the forests and settled the south – including the Germans who settled east Texas. They lived through blistering heat without a/c and – in many cases – without screens for all the bugs. They were tough and determined people and withstood a lot to settle the nations their descendants are giving away.
I grew up in Southeast Texas in a house that didn’t have A/C until I was in junior high school. Our elementary and junior high schools didn’t have A/C. It was friggin’ hot and muggy from March through October. We didn’t know any other way to live. I would no more want to live that way now than I’d want to live without clean running water, natural gas, or automobiles. That’s why we have intelligence and ingenuity–to make life better for ourselves and future generations.
In case I didn’t express it well enough in my other reply–I agree with you 100%!
Look on the bright side, all those Pepsi’s (empty from the neck up) won’t require an oven to prepare their Brie!
They voted for it, now the shit sandwich is right in front of them!
My parents-in-law were born and grew up without air conditioning and during the Dust Bowl. Can’t miss what you didn’t have. To this day, they only turn on the A/C if it is sweltering outside. Did I say they are tough people?
My late father was born in the deep south and in his small GA town, the only A/C in a public building was at the movie theater. Dad remembered going to see the matinee on Saturdays, whether it was any good or not, just to get inside with the A/C and out of that summer heat. The theater owner would let the kids stay as long as they wanted, as long as they kept buying concessions once in a while.
I’m an old guy myself now, and I can remember the first car my wife and I owned together – it had been her car prior to our marriage – a nifty little Honda Civic hatch-back, without A/C. Great car, but heaven help you if you got caught in a traffic jam on a summer day!
The state where I live would be uninhabitable for half the year without climate control. It was notorious for being a cesspool of tropical disease prior to modern medicine and climate technology.
White people evolved in temperate climes; we require artificial cooling to exist anywhere else.
Google for a picture of the mayor of Paris. It’s what you’d expect if you looked for “incompetent traitor” in the dictionary.
You need AC as it is 90 out, right on time for fourth.
Use AC in car on interstate, windows down for non-interstate speeds.