Air conditioning

Air conditioning is reasonably inexpensive, readily available, and easily installed. Nevertheless, after Europe suffered 16,000 heat-related deaths and Belgium alone was hit with 1,747 excess deaths during a recent heat wave, these smug Luddites still refuse to embrace one of the great miracles of the previous century.

A senior official in the Socialist-run government of Paris has blamed the United States and its abundance of air conditioners for the heat wave that has descended upon the French capital and throughout Western Europe.

France’s national public health authority has reported that the country experienced at least 1,000 additional deaths last week during the heat wave compared to averages recorded in previous months.

The governing body of the European Union has been accused of holding a neo-feudalist mindset after it was reported that only certain areas of its building in Brussels kept air conditioning running during last week’s record-breaking heatwave.

Paris, France, is a city where people live almost exclusively in apartments, and as of the latest statistics, only five to six percent of those apartments have any form of air conditioning.

Many of Paris’ buildings that look so picturesque from the outside are proving to be hostile, even dangerous for health, during the unrelenting record heat that is turning both the long summer days and short sweaty nights into battles.

The first major heat wave of the summer has hit areas of the United States as millions try to stay cool.

A police crackdown on unauthorized air conditioning units in the seaside Italian resort town of Portofino has ignited local “vendettas” as neighbors spy and report on one another for the infraction, local media report.

An anonymous Miami good Samaritan made a much-needed donation to a local church just days after they were robbed of their air conditioning units, leaving them in the scorching heat.

Despite many green agenda-loving bigwigs pushing for countries to ration the use of heating and cooling, the COP27 conference is reportedly blasting its elite attendees with air conditioning in 80-degree Egyptian heat.

Citizens on Friday brought some much needed relief to a man named Robert Burks in Fort Worth, Texas.

Two weeks after Italians were told they’d have a choice between ‘air conditioning or peace’, the government appears to have made the choice for them, introducing rationing of AC and heat in a bid to reduce the nation’s dependence on imported Russian energy.

Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi has drawn ridicule for saying that people can either choose peace in Ukraine or their air conditioners.

Far-left Time Magazine, one of the country’s chief conspiracy theorists pushing the Climate Change Hoax, is now openly advocating to have air-conditioning banished.

A falling air conditioner knocked a firefighter unconscious when it fell out of a window and hit him in the head while he battled a fire in Brooklyn on Monday.

A pastor in Akron, Ohio, has a sobering message for the thieves who stole his church’s air conditioning unit.

A group of 50 teachers, parents, students stood outside Denver Public Schools (DPS) headquarters on Monday to protest the lack of air conditioning in 60 buildings throughout the school district.

Some much-needed help from her neighborhood mail carrier gave a surprise boost Wednesday to a woman in Kansas City, Missouri.

The same New York Times campaigning to take away everyone’s air conditioning has a 6250 ton cooling system in its own building, reports FrontpageMag. Oh, and a cool million dollars of it was taxpayer subsidized.

Air conditioning is a sexist and unnecessary luxury that’s killing the planet, according to the New York Times.

President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he is “making progress” in his attempt to keep a Carrier air conditioning plant in Indianapolis from moving to Mexico.

We know about the push for renewables such as wind and solar, but there are other, more subtle aspects of the Obama Administration’s energy policy efforts that have had negative impacts. By the time they are felt, it’s often too late to do much about them.

Global warming will kill your sex life, according to a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Oh silly season, how I love you. The newspapers are filled with absolute crap, our politicians are ignoring major national issues, because all the decent journalists are on holiday, and our 24-hour news channels have to rely on second string

Heritage Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow and former Wall Street Journal contributor Stephen Moore squared off against New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in a war of economic arguments that pitted free market, supply-side economics against statist, Keynesian Obamanomics.

A recording of a school board meeting has gone viral after a Martinez school district school board member was recorded suggesting that a school largely comprised of low-income and Hispanic students could do without air conditioning while another school with mostly white, wealthier students should receive air conditioning.