In the heat wave, the air condition

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Agnès Pannier-Runacher believes that “everywhere” air conditioning should not be put.

Politics – Air! Moreover, France sees red. Moreover, Never recorded temperatures are being measured all over the country. For example, 39 degrees in Paris, 38 in Tours, 37 in Limoges … However, in schools. Therefore, at work, in stores or in the hospital, everyone has their solution to (try) to face these extreme heat. Consequently, And the air conditioning, of course, has a renewed interest.

So much so that the subject entered the political debate. In addition, The national rally put both feet in the dish by offering a “Large plan for air conditioning” June 30. Furthermore, Marine heat wave, air condition Le Pen says it regrets that “Public services are not able to operate for lack of air conditioning. Meanwhile, unlike dozens of countries around the world”. Consequently, The opportunity is too good for the ex-far-right candidate in the presidential election for taking the government in flu. Furthermore, to whom it criticizes for “Walking on the head” By refusing to launch a vast project in this direction.

“Air conditioning saves lives. Furthermore, Let people die in hospitals. or let children or vulnerable people suffer because there is no air conditioning is completely absurd ”she supported on Tuesday 1st, July 1 at the Assembly. Words that made the left jump, especially among environmentalists.

Marine Tondelier thus accuses the far -right leader of having for sole “Ecological program” buying “Air conditioners”. Mocked by the deputy RN Jean-Philippe Tanguy who intimate to go “Working in a 35 -degree hospital”the national heat wave, air condition secretary of the Greens detailed her position: “We are obviously so that hospitals. schools and nursing homes are air -conditioned. But unlike you. we have worked a little the subject of global warming, and we know that air conditioning will not be enough ”.

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A position shared by the rebellious. MP Andrée Taurinya estimates as well as “Air conditioning is not a long -term viable option”. In an emergency. France Insoumise offers well “To install the air conditioning” In some very specific places, especially those welcoming a fragile audience, but the radical leftist party insists that other avenues must be envisaged in the future, as “The vegetation of cities” or white paint “Building roofs”.

And « emergency plan “Was also presented today by the rebellious. who deplore that “Wealthy households are increasingly favoring air conditioning, and install it as they please”when public services heat wave, air condition “Where it turns out to be vital are devoid of it”. The Minister of Ecological Transition Agnès Pannier Runacher also entered the debate. The one who strives to limit the breakage linked to the unraveling of ecological measures by the “Common base. »Judge that “Air conditioning for vulnerable people” is a good idea but “That we should not do everywhere”. “The subject we have with air conditioning is a subject of warming”she insists. not far from the positions expressed by environmentalists. It also pleads for structural measures.

The apparently banal and poorly polemical subject of air conditioning has therefore become a political object. On the one hand. there are those, like the RN, which brandish this technology as the miracle remedy in the face of heat waves, as if the problem was not structural and multifactorial. And that our nuclear energy. decarbonized, could very well be enough to heat wave, air condition fuel these devices without increasing the country’s carbon footprint.

Opposite. the camp of those who emphasize that air conditioning is a marginal response to the problems posed by these scorching episodes, and that it is necessary to rethink the physiognomy of big cities concentrating “ Heat islets », Via thermal renovation or vegetation. Because behind the question of its use hide many issues.

“Air conditioning is not horror”tried to frame the engineer Jean-Marc Jancovici on BFMTV. According to this expert in environmental policies. resorting to air conditioning is not a problem in itself since France produces, at the moment, “A surplus electricity”. “Every day, French and German solar panels produce too much electricity”he insisted.

On the other hand, as Agnès Pannier Runacher, Jean-Marc Jancovici recalls that the air conditioners “Reject heat outside”. And therefore that Their multiplication in apartments. workplaces in strongly populated agglomerations heat wave, air condition may help increase the temperature in the street. Enough to give a hot stroke to the (limited) argument of the national rally.