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As temperatures blew past 100\u00b0<\/strong>F in cities across Europe last week, it was difficult to tell what was generating more hot air: the weather or the discourse around the right way to endure it.<\/p>\n

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On the western side of the Atlantic, the answer was almost uniformly obvious: air conditioning. Just around 20 percent of European households have air conditioning, compared to 90 percent in the US. Even public buildings \u2014 including vital ones like schools and hospitals \u2014 often go without air conditioning in Europe. Not because they can\u2019t afford them, primarily, but because, for some reason, many people there think there\u2019s something inherently wrong with what the French call \u201cclimatisation<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The very idea of air conditioning, to many Europeans, is an example of maladaptation, \u201ca false solution that makes the problem worse\u201d \u2014 in the words of far-left French politician Jean-Luc M\u00e9lenchon. Better to adapt for those very hot days by closing the shutters and blinds during the day, staying in the shade, drinking plenty of water, and maybe planting a tree. Air conditioning? You won\u2019t find that mentioned in many government heat advisories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From my (heavily) air-conditioned office in New York, it almost feels like sport to watch the X fights play out, as smug Americans dunk on their European counterparts \u2014 did you know you need a doctor\u2019s note to air condition your home in Geneva? \u2014 and Europeans, presumably tweeting from inside their darkened chateaus, give it right back. It\u2019s like the World Cup, except World Cup matches actually end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the stakes around extreme heat and the lack of air conditioning aren\u2019t funny at all. Europe has more heat deaths per capita than any other continent, and, in 2022, alone, more than 61,000 Europeans died from heat-related causes. Early estimates suggest there were at least 1,000 excess deaths during the three worst days of the heat wave in France last week, with overbooked mortuary owners turning away family members who had lost loved ones to the heat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The reality is it\u2019s only going to get worse. Europe is already the fastest-warming continent in the world, heating at roughly twice the rate of the global average since the 1980s. More than two-thirds of Europe\u2019s most severe heat waves since 1950 have come since 2000, and, by 2050, about half the continent\u2019s population could face high or very high heat-stress risk every summer. And while Europe has taken climate change more seriously than any other region, the next 20 plus years of warming is largely locked in, meaning that Europe alone can\u2019t mitigate its way out of ever more intense heat waves. It has no choice but to adapt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And adaptation will require air conditioning \u2014 full stop. There is no technology more effective at turning a deadly heat wave into a survivable one. But, for that to happen, both sides of the Atlantic need to shed the political and cultural baggage they\u2019ve loaded onto AC units. Air conditioning is not the moral failing Europe imagines, nor the emblem of freedom and the good life that America takes it for. Air conditioning is a normal technology \u2014 a machine that does a useful job at a manageable cost, like a refrigerator or a furnace \u2014 and, in a world that is only going to get hotter, it is a lifesaving one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To find the way out of the AC wars, it helps to borrow an idea from another technology people have strong feelings about: artificial intelligence. While much of Silicon Valley spent years insisting AI would either deliver paradise or end the species, two Princeton computer scientists, Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, offered an alternative last April. AI, they argued, is a normal technology. Normal did not mean unimportant; even world-remaking tools like electricity and the internet are \u201cnormal\u201d in their conception, adopted gradually and improved over time rather than arriving to void the old rulebook. A normal technology is neither savior nor demon; it is a machine that does a job. And air conditioning has almost never been seen that way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Its effectiveness, at least, should not be in doubt. In a landmark study tracking US mortality across the entire century, the economist Alan Barreca and his colleagues found that the chance of dying on an extremely hot day fell by about 80 percent from the years in the 1900-to-1959 stretch to the decades that followed. Days above 90\u00b0F had once been mass-casualty events; by the back half of the 20th century, they were responsible for roughly 600 deaths a year, down from the 3,600 who would have died had heat remained as lethal as it was before broader use of air conditioning. And it is the spread of that technology, the authors concluded, that explains essentially the entire decline \u2014 almost none of it began before 1960, the exact moment home AC started its march across the country. And globally, the Lancet<\/em> Countdown estimated that, in 2019, air conditioning averted 195,000 heat-related deaths among people over 65, who are most vulnerable to heat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To which Europeans might say: What about carbon? Air conditioning runs on electricity, and it can<\/em> add to climate change depending on the dirtiness of the grid it\u2019s drawing from. More air conditioning, more climate change \u2014 that\u2019s the maladaptation AC critics see.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But what\u2019s true about air conditioning is true of any use of energy. Right now, space cooling accounts for just 0.8 percent of the energy EU households consume, compared to 77 percent for heating. Cooling is smaller than heating at a ratio of nearly 100 to 1, yet, outside special situations like the 2022-23 Ukraine-related energy crisis, you rarely hear proposals to cap winter thermostat levels or denunciations of radiators as a decadent indulgence. For some reason \u2014 perhaps because of its relative newness, or, perhaps, just because Americans love it so much \u2014 air conditioning gets put into a special moral category.<\/p>\n

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Even if Europe did decide to increase air conditioning coverage significantly, and the energy continued to come from a similar distribution of carbon-generating sources, the carbon output would be minimal. If Europe were to double air conditioning to 40 percent of households by 2050, according to a 2023 paper, the added carbon would represent just three-tenths of one percent <\/em>of the region\u2019s current emissions. Get closer to a level comparable to the US or Japan, and the effect on emissions would still be fairly low.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It won\u2019t be easy, necessarily. As Robinson Meyer at Heatmap wrote this week, the well-sealed windows common in many European cities outside the south make window units difficult to install. But, then, neither was decarbonizing Europe\u2019s grid, and the region has done that effectively. Renewables now generate nearly half of EU electricity, and the bloc has committed to cutting emissions 90 percent relative to 1990 levels by 2040. It\u2019s not maladaptation to make liberal use of air conditioning on a cleaner grid; it\u2019s just necessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Critics will often counter that air conditioners don\u2019t destroy heat; they move it, pumping it out of the building and into the street. Cool the inside, and you warm the outside \u2014 and pack enough units into a dense city like Paris, and the effect compounds. As Hans-Martin F\u00fcssel of the European Environment Agency told the CBC, dense-city air conditioning \u201ccan create an even stronger urban heat island effect,\u201d thanks to the trapped warmth that already makes cities hotter on average than the surrounding countryside.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But the answer isn\u2019t to leave people sweating in darkened 95\u00b0F bedrooms; it\u2019s using more efficient units that vent less waste heat. The worst AC option is the one Europeans are too often left with: the wheezing single-hose portable, wedged into a window, which creates a vacuum that sucks hot air back in through every crack even as it labors to cool indoor paces. Yet, when a more efficient fixed unit means a landlord\u2019s permission, a costly renovation, or a Genevan doctor\u2019s note, this worst version of the machine becomes the path of least resistance. Done right, cooling and a livable city aren\u2019t in conflict \u2014 but \u201cdone right\u201d is exactly what Europe\u2019s rules often make hard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cooling shouldn\u2019t be political<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If Europe\u2019s failure is treating air conditioning as a sin, America\u2019s is treating it as a birthright \u2014 cooling without thought, everywhere, all the time. Think the office tower kept so cold that workers bring sweaters in the summer, or the grocery store with its doors propped open onto the city street, hemorrhaging cold air.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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With a major heat dome bearing down on the eastern half of the country this week, PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, is forecasting a possible all-time record of more than 166,000 megawatts of demand, driven largely by air conditioning. The utility is warning that blackouts grow more likely as the system strains. But the problem here isn\u2019t a moral failing; it\u2019s an engineering one. It\u2019s best solved with planning and investment, not with shame. It requires an approach, in fact, like Europe\u2019s, which is already planning for the surge in electricity demand from the electric cars and heat pumps it actually wants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The point is not that Europe should cool itself the way America does. A normal technology is one you use well, one that is simply deployed where it does the most good. Used well, air conditioning is targeted before it is universal \u2014 installed first in the care homes, and hospital wards, and top-floor apartments where heat actually kills, run on efficient units drawing from a clean grid, paired with the shutters and shade trees and white roofs that Europe is right to love. Add one more thing: the heat pump, which is nothing more than an air conditioner that runs in both directions, cooling in summer and heating in winter, and <\/em>more efficiently than the boiler it replaces. The same machine, pointed one way, is climate virtue; pointed the other, it is supposedly climate vice. But the distinction was never real.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There\u2019s evidence that this most recent heat wave has finally begun breaking down entrenched European opposition to air conditioning, and Asian makers of ACs are enjoying a boom in European sales. But, at the same time, there\u2019s a risk that the culture war over air conditioning is shifting from across the Atlantic to within Europe itself. In France, the loudest champion of cooling is now the far right\u2019s Marine Le Pen, who has made air conditioning a campaign issue, promising a \u201cgrand plan\u201d for it while accusing the left of letting people die for green pieties. The hard-left, predictably, has dug in the other way. And so, a common window unit becomes one more thing to be for or against, depending on your team \u2014 a marker of identity rather than a machine that moves heat around.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That is exactly the trap. The whole value of seeing air conditioning as a normal technology is that it lets you ask boring, useful questions \u2014 what it costs, whom it saves, how to run it cleanly \u2014 instead of the tribal one of whose side it\u2019s on. A technology that becomes a symbol isn\u2019t rationally evaluated; it\u2019s embraced or condemned, which is how Europe ended up rationing the most effective heat-protection machine ever invented in the first place. If cooling gets recoded as right-wing, the same mistake will just run in reverse, with the people who care most about the climate given one more reason to treat a life-saving thing as suspect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Heat doesn\u2019t recognize politics. The grandmother broiling on the top floor in Paris, the dazed schoolchild in a classroom with no relief, the harried nurse on a ward where machines fail in the heat \u2014 they don\u2019t need air conditioning to be a value. They need it to be normal.<\/p>\n

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