{"id":11228,"date":"2021-11-04t16:11:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-04t16:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/essay-shutters-wont-stop-frances-lethal-summer-heat\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07t19:39:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07t19:39:26","slug":"france-summer-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/france-summer-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"essay | shutters won&#8217;t stop france&#8217;s lethal summer heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my four siblings and i have been struggling to stay cool in the summertime ever since i can remember. from waking up multiple times a night to take a cold shower, to physically fighting each other over the three fans available at our house on the outskirts of paris, our summers were always restless.<\/p>\n<p><strong>why don\u2019t we have ac, you might ask?<\/strong>&nbsp;because it just isn\u2019t that popular. in 2019,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.equilibredesenergies.org\/30-07-2020-la-climatisation-des-logements-residentiels-laisser-faire-ou-encadrer-intelligemment\/&amp;sa=d&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1632243952830000&amp;usg=aovvaw0-bgt946iykkwejv5dyxam\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">less than a fourth<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;households in france were equipped with at least one air conditioning system, compared to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/data-and-statistics\/charts\/percentage-of-households-equiped-with-ac-in-selected-countries-2018\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">90% of households<\/a>&nbsp;in the united states at that time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>but temperatures will continue to rise&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meteofrance.fr\/climat-passe-et-futur\/climathd\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">until at least 2050<\/a>.&nbsp;how will we be able to cope?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asp-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/rnrpzbgt4smcj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"shutters won't stop france's lethal summer heat\" src=\"https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/rnrpzbgt4smcj\/embed.jpg?buster=1636058916065\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>editor&#8217;s note: check back each day during cop26 for more pieces in planet forward&#8217;s climate hits&nbsp;home series.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>climate hits home | as temperatures continue to rise and summers get more unbearable every year, will the future generation of kids in france still be able to enjoy their summers like&nbsp;i did?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4916],"tags":[985,144,4588,179,4111,3574,4620],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-11228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","tag-adaptation","tag-climate-change","tag-cop26","tag-energy","tag-european-union","tag-extreme-weather","tag-global-perspectives"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- this site is optimized with the yoast seo plugin v23.4 - 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