37C is 98.6 F ...body temperature. A hot day, but not out of the normal range for most of the USA in the summer.

> There is a strange movement in Europe against Air Conditioners. It is the reason why tens of thousands of people die from heat stroke most years in Europe.

Two things European football fans were absolutely fucking gobsmacked over in the Twenty-fucking-first Century after visiting America; the existence of yellow school buses, and air conditioning.

Which naturally left Americans wondering two things in retort: How big is the school train to Hogwarts, and does it have air conditioning?

Many Europeans live in apartments and the outside part of the AC tends to be loud and annoy the neighbours which is serious business. Window ACs are not really an option because Europeans have tilt and turn windows, not slide windows.

> There is a strange movement in Europe against Air Conditioners.

Yes. But a large part of that is the difficulty in retrofitting it to their older buildings. In the USA, we have a large installed base of forced air heating. Which can be upgraded to a heat pump. Also, we (USA) have more stand alone single family dwellings. So remodeling or even piping in split systems is easier. And with a heat pump, you not only get more efficient heat, but A/C as well.

> hate and refuse to promote air conditioners often use refrigerators and freezers in the same homes.

Completely different applications. Refrigerators/freezers are self contained and much smaller than an entire house. And

This is plain bullshit. Itâs that until recently, air condition was not necessary at all. Europe is very far to the north. Great Britain for instance lies between the latitudes of Vancouver Island and Juneau, Alaska. On the other side, Montreal, Canada is on the same latitude than Milan, Italy, and Toronto is as far to the north as Florence. Most of the continuous U.S. is somewhere between the Mediterran and the Sahara Desert. No one in southern Italy doubted the necessity of air condition in the Summe

Hi there, EU here...

One warm summer and we all need to install AC? Last summer was rainy and miserable. Just deal with it. From all the summer days only one was pretty hard. Good news. We planted a few trees for shade, those did their job well. Still need to plant two on the west side and temperatures inside will drop again. I may install an evaporator in the ventilation unit. It consumes water but cools a bit. Maybe a small mobile AC for the worst days, but I am going to hold off on that one. Chances are

where is this strange movement, as a European I have never heard about them before. The thing is though that many of us live in apartments and due to how our windows are different from yours the cheap window units that you guys use cannot be used here. And installing a real AC is ofc not allowed if you live in an apartment so we are left with tiny split units with the added problem that the room plans are designed to keep heat so having a split unit in one room does basically nothing to the heat in the othe

> There is a strange movement in Europe against Air Conditioners.

Not really, the earlier death of the elderly helps keep universal healthcare affordable. The elderly are especially vulnerable, and their earlier passing helps avoid the most expensive years of coverage.

Clearly an uniformed individual from perhaps the US? Let's be clear, the reason summers are warming fast is because of excessive CO2. US citizens emit, per person, 3x that of Europeans. Would you have us all start emitting 3x as much by adopting US habits (AC, Massive cars etc)? No, its time for Americans to wake up to what they are doing to the fucking world, and stop doing it.

This has nothing to do with AC. You don't need AC, these temperatures aren't remotely extreme. People are dying in Germany in temperatures where people are out sunbathing and enjoying themselves in in France. Thinking this is a lack of AC is an incredibly ignorant take on the issue.

The fundamental issue is society is built around a temperature norm, and that norm is breaking. Not AC or not AC, but everything we do as a society. We need to change our approach to heat in general and we'll be fine.

Here's just

> The differences between a refrigerator and and air conditioner are basically cosmetic and placement

No, the difference between a refrigerator and and air conditioner is two orders of magnitude in energy use. An AC tends to use more power than the rest of the house combined.

Thirty years ago, in the area where I live (.nl) there was basically no need for air conditioning: temperatures high enough that you can't function without AC were a once-a-decade occurrence, so installing it was seen as wasteful.

Today, there still is resistance to installing AC units, with the argument that they exacerbate the problem,

> as a long term plan for some of the population. This catastrophe won't go away in years, it will take decades even if we drastically curtail C02 emissions. O'neill cylinders should be part of the long term plan.

O'Neill settlements, of course, must be run with zero fossil fuels supplying energy, and with all manufacturing completely closed cycle: no atmosphere, rivers, or landfills to exhaust waste into. And the ecology likewise a closed system.

Once you have solved the problem of the closed-ecology of an orbital O'Neill settlement, you need only implement that approach on the Earth.

So, YES! Let's push forward with O'Neill space settlements! Because we need that technology for Earth.

Indeed, the ice age ended finally... about 7000 years ago.

And the entirety of human history has risen during the inter-glacial. We've built a civilization well adapted to the climate as it currently is.

So, why would we went to change it?