Europe’s growing heat waves: Air conditioning for all?

Ah, the politics of keeping cool. First day of July and already France and parts of Europe are enduring their second major heatwave with no respite: from the shores of the Mediterranean warmed by waters at an alarming 26 degrees Celsius to the rooftop of Europe, Mont Blanc where the mercury’s got no business venturing above freezing this early in the summer… how to adapt to the new normal?