This is not a particularly clever article. It conflates the question of "Are American offices overcooled?" with "Do we really need air conditioning?" The answer

This is not a particularly clever article. It conflates the question of "Are American offices overcooled?" with "Do we really need air conditioning?" The answer to the former is probably yes, but the latter is most certainly also yes. The author makes not even a passing mention of the American Southwest, the Gulf Coast or Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The current standard of living in these areas without air conditioning would essentially be impossible.