> What surprised me was how few households have air conditioning in Europe. It’s been reported on for years, and it’s not just Europe. In Hawaii, for example,

> What surprised me was how few households have air conditioning in Europe. It’s been reported on for years, and it’s not just Europe. In Hawaii, for example, most places didn’t have AC, and didn’t really need it until the 2010s, when the weather noticeably changed. Now, there’s entire sides of the islands, particularly leeward, where AC companies are working 24/7 on installation projects in buildings that haven’t had AC for the previous 20-30 years. Same is true for California, where people are putting AC in for the first time in homes that were built in the 1960s and didn’t need it before.