Source: Washington Monthly
by Gillen Tener Martin
“On June 26, the week France recorded its hottest day on record (a record broken the following day), Fox News hosted Bjørn Lomborg, the Danish political scientist and climate contrarian known for his opposition to conventional policy prescriptions, who chided Europeans for their slow adoption of AC. ‘We’ve had this technology for more than a century,’ Lomborg said, ‘and Europe doesn’t want to use it mostly because they want to feel virtuous,’ adding that European Union energy taxes increase the cost of running AC. … In an unbelievable feat of journalism, across the political spectrum, the U.S. media frenzy missed the simple, glaringly obvious explanation: Europe is less air-conditioned because it didn’t used to be this hot.” (08/20/26)