A veritable moral panic over air conditioning is raging – rather surreally – across the West as high summer temperatures produce the usual flood of exaggerated concerns.
Britons have been summarily ordered to remove already installed AC units under net zero rules, as The Telegraph has reported. France’s climate minister expressed horror at the very notion of artificial indoor cooling. “Do you think that’s going to prevent forest fires?” she said. “Do you think that’s going to prevent a crop from dying?” Germany’s state broadcaster added to “climate awareness” with this pearl of wisdom: “Air conditioners: what cools us down, heats up the Earth.”
