In a Paris heatwave (33–40°C), Hügo Krüger says France suffers more indoors because only about 25% of homes have AC, unlike near-universal AC in the US/Japan. He describes ideological and regulatory resistance to AC from ecologists and left-wing politicians, despite AC being a reversible heat pump and France’s electricity being largely nuclear. Apartment rules, aesthetic objections, and energy ratings discourage installation; subsidies favor air-to-water heat pumps that can’t cool. Demand for fans and AC is surging, and politicians propose easing restrictions. He expects fewer deaths than 2003 due to heat alerts, but argues AC would reduce vulnerability.

00:00 Paris Heatwave Check In

01:00 Why France Lacks AC

01:33 Myths About Air Conditioning

03:00 Hospitals Trains And Culture

03:42 Politics And Nuclear Power Angle

07:20 Heat Deaths And Public Response

14:47 Regulations Blocking Reversible AC

16:44 How Rare Is This Heat

17:54 2003 Heatwave Lessons

20:31 Hardliners And Building Lobby

22:14 Insulation Fans And Daily Life

24:11 Bigger Pattern And Nuclear Future

29:04 Wrap Up And GoFundMe Plug

https://x.com/hkrugertjie

“fundraiser to buy an AC for the French Heat Wave!”: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-not-melt-in-paris-2026-heatwave?lang=en_US&ts=1782483248

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Erich Schaffer critiques the “super greenhouse effect” and argues that tropical outgoing longwave radiation stays flat mainly because tropospheric temperature is sluggish relative to surface temperature, not because water vapor amplifies greenhouse trapping. He says regional and seasonal proxies for water vapor feedback are invalid (citing admissions by Ramanathan/Inamdar and Dessler et al.) and claims interannual proxy results are distorted by aspect-ratio choices and improper OLS regression, advocating TLS or rotated-benchmark methods. Reanalyzing published plots (Spencer, Lindzen-Choi, Chung, Andy May), he concludes water vapor plus lapse rate implies strong negative feedback and low ECS (~1 K). He also alleges data “fudging” and broader scientific incompetence.

00:00 Super Greenhouse Effect

02:20 OLR Calculations Explained

03:28 Troposphere Sluggishness

05:32 Ramanathan Admission

10:23 Feedback Breakdown Math

12:37 Two Proxies Debunked

14:05 Revisiting Interannual Proxy

16:02 Bad Regression Plotting

17:16 Aspect Ratio Distortion

23:45 OLS vs TLS Regression

30:53 Negative Feedback Emerges

33:22 Spencer Regression Mystery

37:45 Lindzen Choi Critique

41:03 Fixing Lindzen Plot

51:17 Recent Andy May Example

53:21 Rotate Plot Method

55:19 Benchmark Slope Trick

57:38 Questionable Outliers

01:01:26 Proxies Fall Apart

01:02:22 Lapse Rate Physics

01:05:45 Tropical Hotspot Feedback

01:11:10 AR6 Codependency Critique

01:14:24 MODTRAN Water Vapor Test

01:19:44 Emission Altitudes Explained

01:25:22 Net Feedback and ECS

01:27:17 Blunders and Sociology

01:40:54 Q&A and Takeaway

01:44:44 Bonus Coal Math Error

01:47:42 Wrap Up

Erich Schaffer: “Water Vapor Feedback, Part One”: https://youtu.be/2O4mOf9gk-s

https://x.com/erich_schaffer

https://greenhousedefect.com/

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Tom interviews Anika Sweetland, who argues Earth’s climate changes in predictable natural cycles and that today is relatively cool in a 65‑million‑year context. Using graphs and books by Gregory Wrightstone, she describes ice-age rhythms linked to Milankovitch cycles and 1,500‑year Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles, including the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age, and claims solar activity and cosmic rays better correlate with temperature than CO2. She says the IPCC smooths data and governments use fear for control, while net-zero policies are wasteful and geoengineering in the UK is concerning. Sweetland recounts university climate studies as CO2-focused indoctrination, discusses backlash and support online, and previews a part two on the IPCC.

00:00 Meet Anika Sweetland

04:40 Ice Ages and Long Cooling

07:18 Milankovitch Cycles Explained

09:14 Dansgaard Oeschger Cycles

11:04 Medieval Warmth and Little Ice Age

14:01 Sun Cosmic Rays and Clouds

18:21 CO2 Claims and Propaganda

21:07 Her Climate Degree Experience

23:22 Education Debate and Models

27:47 Conference Disruption and Activism

30:34 Social Media Pushback

34:54 Part Two and Wrap Up

35:22 Energy Policy and Geoengineering

39:18 Final Thanks and Goodbye

https://x.com/anika_climate

The 16th International Conference on Climate Change: https://climateconference.heartland.org/

Anika on being bombarded with global warming propaganda: https://x.com/anika_climate/status/2037550091544785239

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