The response of the French Government for Marine Le Pen, who asked for large -scale air conditioners: “An inadequate adaptation”

The air conditioning is not the solution to combat the increasingly intense heat waves, the French Minister of Ecological Transition, in response to the proposal of the extreme-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, regarding a “major plan for installing air conditioning equipment said on Tuesday.

“Our problem with the air conditioning is about heating,” explained Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher, qualifying the air conditioning as an “inadequate adaptation” to increasing temperatures.

“When you cool down a room, you need heat to get the cold, which means you necessarily heat another area,” said the French official in front of reporters. “You heat the streets, which increases the number of hot spots,” she added.

A 2020 study on the use of air conditioning (AC) in Paris emphasized that “if air conditioning systems release heat in the street, as most often happens, the outside air warms up and the heat wave is aggravated”, with an impact of several degrees Celsius, depending on how widespread the use of AC devices is.

“Although it is an effective solution for households that allow themselves, the air conditioning aggravates the situation of households that cannot or do not want to adopt it,” added the study published in the Environmental Research Letters.

The French have never been large air conditioning fans, notes the publication in Brussels, but the number of French households that install cooling systems is increasing.

On Monday, in a post on the social network X, Le Pen accused the Paris government of forcing ordinary people to suffer from heat, while the “so-called French elites” benefit from air conditioning.

Frédéric Falcon, a parliamentarian from the RN (national racial) Pen party, said that the objective of the formation is to install air conditioners “as much as possible, in administrations, schools, old houses and private homes”.

The French authorities supported the endowment of strategic buildings and public transport with cooling systems, but have given priority to other methods of maintaining low temperatures that do not emit greenhouse gases, such as planting several trees and better isolation of buildings.

The night from Monday to Tuesday was the hottest registered in Hexagon, according to the French Meteorological Service, and on Tuesday is expected to be “one of the hottest days ever registered in France”, with maximum temperatures up to 41 degrees Celsius in the capital Paris.