Stan Cox really doesn’t like air conditioning. In his “scientific” new book (and I use the term scientific in a loose and mocking manner),Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer), Mr. Cox points out the steep personal and societal price of air conditioning.
Personally, I think air conditioning has been wonderful for society. People definitely smell better. Smelling nice is good. Smelling like stinky armpit sweat is gross. By my logic, air conditioning is helping us love our neighbors.
But, but, but … air conditioning increases our carbon footprint! The ice caps will melt and we’ll be forced to live on boats with a web-footed Kevin Costner and drink our own pee!
Calm down everyone, the ice caps are not melting. There is zip, zero, zilch, nada evidence that the Earth is warming, and even if it were, there’s no proof that we humans are responsible for the climate change. To get a conviction in court, there needs to be evidence. But for some reason we have a bunch of crazy politicians burning copious amounts of fuel, all the while yelling at us to buy expensive light bulbs so we can be green.
If Nancy Pelosi actually believes that the planet is going to be irreparably harmed by carbon emissions, why doesn’t she reduce her own? I know burning my house down is a bad idea, so guess what? I don’t do it. Sister should practice what she preaches.
In an article Monday in the Washington Post, Stan Cox goes even further than the global warmingargument in his fight against air conditioners. He claims that air conditioning is responsible for the breakdown of American society. Which is interesting, because if Mr. Cox had been to a single Tea Party protest, church picnic, or county fair in the past year or two, he’d see that America is alive and well.
Margaret in Austin says:
I find it interesting that all the people advocating that we turn off our A/C live in relatively cooler climes.
To the pansies telling everyone else what to do, I say: I’ll turn off my A/C when you turn off your heat. Having lived most of my 52 years in the Buffalo, NY area, I can bet hands down that I can survive a Texas summer without A/C, but you couldn’t survive even a Virginia winter without heat! And no cheating and using a fireplace. CO2s and all that milarky.
July 15, 2010, 6:57 pmSvchost says:
I hate this whole “turn your A/C down”. Right, as if Al Gore turns his down. When does this hypocrisy. Why can’t they admit, it’s about plunging our country into socialism and anti-exceptionalism. Want to bet, soon A/C will be regulated. I mean, government thermostat installed in every house. You’ll get your allotment for the month and that is it. Now watch though, many government and elites won’t have to follow this. Like everything they pass, there’s loop holes for them to leap through. Dangerous times.
July 19, 2010, 8:04 amJenny says:
Hmmm…Sounds a lot like the USSR. #notgood
July 19, 2010, 11:07 amElectronic Air Cleaners Winnipeg says:
Funny story! Well, so guys don’t turn off your AC if you don’t want to get a bad smell…
October 12, 2011, 7:16 pm