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AC in public buildings is more common in Helsinki than in the 80s, but even now with rising temps, in many homes it would really be needed only a few days of the year.

Hello, stop it with the Puritan “man up” crap. Imagine glorifying suffering.

Summers getting hotter. People without ac can die from heatstroke. Heat pump AC and solar panels so the electric company pays you. More wind and alternative power needed to help environment. Maybe stop arguing about it and work together to improve conditions for everyone. 💚

Amazed this is even subject for debate in the States.

The thing no one has really mentioned in all of this is the role of geography. Europe is on the same latitude as Canada and Northern USA, while the US ranges much closer to the equator. We get higher temps, more sun, and higher UV index than most of Europe. The heat in the South US is more extreme.

The USA is increasing global warming by greater greenhouse gas emissions, France is reducing them.

I moved to Seattle in the 90s and bought a home. My father (in Kansas and AC repairman) only had one question: what kind of AC unit does it have and what’s the size?😂 Me: it doesn't have AC (VERY common there) I thought he was gonna have a stroke. You bought a new house with no AC!?!?

Good taste.

Absorption air conditioning and refrigeration predates compressor air conditioning. But the electric industry prefers you use less efficient electric compressors.

In the recent past, in 2003, France had to take over large refrigerated trucks to get half a U.S. Vietnam's worth of casualties out of their old folks' homes and hospitals.

The Atlantic has clearly never set foot in Costa del Sol. 🙄