Makes me wonder if Europeans don’t know how to handle heat. Or maybe not everywhere is air conditioned? Anyone tell me what it’s like over there? I know, it’s going to vary wildly by country.
I was a kid in 1980 Oklahoma, the summer of “who shot JR?”. We had 50 days of 100F+ weather. Killed my rabbit. :( All that to say, I’m not unsympathetic, but in many places in America, we know how to handle heat.
Air conditioning is far less common in most of Europe than in the US. There is a real stigma associated with it, and some jurisdictions require evidence of a medical condition to all you to install it at home
Makes me wonder if Europeans don’t know how to handle heat. Or maybe not everywhere is air conditioned? Anyone tell me what it’s like over there? I know, it’s going to vary wildly by country.
I was a kid in 1980 Oklahoma, the summer of “who shot JR?”. We had 50 days of 100F+ weather. Killed my rabbit. :( All that to say, I’m not unsympathetic, but in many places in America, we know how to handle heat.
People dying from the heat are older people or people already in bad medical conditions. Not kid or healthy people.
AC could have an influence but the excess mortality due to heatwave is also happening in countries with a lot of AC like Australia : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412025004982?via=ihub#t0010
Air conditioning is far less common in most of Europe than in the US. There is a real stigma associated with it, and some jurisdictions require evidence of a medical condition to all you to install it at home