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Is an air-conditioning revolution coming to Europe? 59%
By Sabrina Weiss0% WIRED.com0%
7/10/2026, 11:10:08 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Unattributed Quote, and In-Group Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 23.4% saturation with 68 hits. Analysis detected 608 faulty-reasoning hits from 291 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 55.2% and a BS Rank of 59% (9,107 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 58.40% of the article peer group.
If you're reading this while the blinds are drawn against yet another heat wave and wondering whether it’s finally time to buy an air conditioner, you're far from alone.
At the end of June, as temperatures climbed well above 40° Celsius across Europe, shoppers in France literally forced their way into stores to snatch up portable fans and ACs before they sold out.
Such scenes are likely to become more common.
As the planet warms , the demand for cooling is rising worldwide.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts two-thirds of households could own an AC by 2050.
Politicians are, of course, turning ACs into a weapon in their broader culture wars .
Far-right figure Marine Le Pen pledged to roll out air-conditioning across France if her party comes to power, while the British Conservatives vowed to overturn net-zero rules that restrict AC installation in new builds.
On the left, the argument runs that air-conditioning would mainly benefit the rich and not those who need it most.
It would also lock Europe into the same high-energy cooling spiral seen in the US and Asia.
To date, only around 20 percent of Europeans have AC at home (and a mere 4 percent in the UK), compared with roughly 90 percent in the US, where electricity is considerably cheaper.
In Europe, air-conditioning is no longer just about comfort.
It helps adults stay productive through extreme heat, and children concentrate in poorly ventilated schools .
It helps people nod off when the air is still stiflingly warm long after sunset.
It can even save lives.
One research group estimated that air-conditioning prevented nearly 200,000 premature deaths among people over 65 in 2019 alone.
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