Air conditioning is reasonably inexpensive, readily available, and easily installed. Nevertheless, after Europe suffered 16,000 heat-related deaths and Belgium alone was hit with 1,747 excess deaths during a recent heat wave, these smug Luddites still refuse to embrace one of the greatest miracles of the last century. [some emphasis, links added]
This is monstrous… And could have been easily prevented…
“Seniors died in stifling apartments. Emergency calls were left on hold. Doctors treated an onslaught of people sick from heat, sometimes in wards without air conditioning,” reports the far-left New York Times. “These are scenes that played out in Belgium, one of the world’s wealthiest nations, on a recent summer weekend.”
In one region of Belgium called Wallonia, more people died in a single day from the heat than died on the worst day of the COVID pandemic. From mid-June to early July, the death rate in Belgium was 77 percent higher than normal.
As you would expect, 85 percent of those deaths were people over age 65.
Naturally, the New York Times and the Euro-weenies blame this heat wave on Climate Change. Everyone is also certain things will get worse; that these deadly heat waves will become more severe and commonplace.
Still, they refuse to embrace the easy and cost-efficient remedy of air conditioning.
“[P]atients were often hesitant to install air conditioning, worried that it would make them sick, spread germs and harm the environment,” one doctor explained. He added that…
“Belgians do not want to be Americans,” with their thermostats set at “65 degrees.”
That doctor also said that Belgium’s “mentality on air conditioning has to change.” But Belgian officials told the Times they oppose “relying too much on climate control, concerned that adding it could overwhelm the power grid and leave cities even hotter by pumping hot air into the streets.”
This is lunacy…
Belgium has also had at least seven years to do something about this, even if it is only cooling centers or educating the public on what to do in a heatwave — common-sense things, like slipping into a cool bath or shower.
You see, this summer’s 104-degree peak is not the hottest on record.
Time for a truth bomb.
Western Europe has seen a lot of extreme heat this summer (and in most summers since 2015 or so). And these heatwaves at this point have exceeded those of 1911, 1947, and 1976, which many fellow climate skeptics / critics have had a hard time admitting or… pic.twitter.com/DLsxfaO06I
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) August 2, 2026
In July 2019, Belgium hit 107.2 and 104.4 degrees. So, if you believe in Climate Change, why not get cracking in 2019 to protect yourself? Why hasn’t the government done anything? Good heavens, all the way back in 2003, temperatures in Belgium rose to over 100 degrees. It happened once in 1947.
As far as I’m concerned, Belgium has had plenty of time and plenty of warning to boost its electric grid. Nevertheless… “Half of all emergency rooms in Wallonia lacked air-conditioning[.]”
So, you go to the emergency room overcome by the heat and enter an even hotter cauldron filled with people.
This is medieval.
This is barbarism.
This is superstitious, anti-science nonsense.
All the resources are available to prevent every one of these deaths, and these smug dumbasses “do not want to be Americans,” with their thermostats set at “65 degrees.”
Okay, how about 75 degrees? How about 85 degrees?
The left is so out of ideas that their only path to power is to so toxify the political right that people who live in one of the world’s richest countries would rather die a grisly, awful, painful death from heatstroke than install a $400 air conditioner.
The left has become a death cult.
Is it beyond possibility that Europe refuses to enter the modern age because the heat mostly kills the elderly and that’s what they want? After all, the modern left sees the elderly as an unnecessary drain on public health resources.
The modern left sees all human beings not as individuals created by God and therefore uniquely precious, but as something utilitarian who are of no use once what they take from the State exceeds what they give to the State.
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What is the relative humidity on these warm days? A spray bottle of water and a fan can work wonders.
Until the 2020s, much of northern Europe experienced few days above 86 degrees Fahrenheit and generally passed summers fine with the cooling measures that pre-AC construction employed: thick stone walls, shutters, and the like.
Do you think that’s the left’s goal–kill the elderly by not providing AC. A cheap way to get rid of those who also use the most medical services so every old person who dies from heat is one less old person using expensive medical services. Sounds cynical but would any thinking adult come up with another conclusion?