NYT's Rosenthal Again Tries to Get World to Turn Off the Air:

NewsBusters.org ^ | August 20, 2012 | Clay Waters

[Kaslin]

The entire title is: NYT's Rosenthal Again Tries to Get World to Turn Off the Air: 'We Can't Live With Air-Conditioning...'

[OldPossum]

My hero is and will remain, Willis Carrier. And these environmental nutcases can take it ane ram it.

[SpaceBar]

"Air-conditioning makes us feel better, but it's hurting the planet."

How much you wanna bet she typed that sentence in the comfort of an air conditioned office?

[SpaceBar]

It’s also interesting to note that she ascribes to air-conditioning the precise attributes of liberalism e.g. it makes us feel better, but is ruining the planet.

[Bryanw92]

One more time liberals: if YOU want to live in a teepee, wear animal skins, and eat berries, I will not stop you. But, I have yet to see very many of you living this “perfect” lifestyle you want for the rest of us. Go do it for a year and report back on how wonderful it is and then the rest of us will evaluate and decide if we want it.

Its always funny how they recommend primitive lifestyles from their offices in big northeastern cities. Actually, its not funny—it’s hypocritical!

[GreyFriar]

And how many people living in New York City, Chicago and other “northern” cities is she willing to have die during summer heat waves once the airconditioning she railes against is turned off? And does she actually think about that?

[GreyFriar]

AIR CONDITIONED OFFICES

[OldPossum]

Good point. Can you imagine how hot it could get in those high-rises during July without a/c?

[The Sons of Liberty]

These libs are always good at telling everyone else what to do, but I’d bet he’d never turn of HIS a/c. I want him to come down South and try his line, ha ha ha.

[Alas Babylon!]

Projections of air-conditioning use are daunting. In 2007, only 11 percent of households in Brazil and 2 percent in India had air-conditioning, compared with 87 percent in the United States, which has a more temperate climate, said Michael Sivak, a research professor in energy at the University of Michigan.

Well come down here to Alabama, you iced-Yankee wolverine idiot! It ain't so temperate, fool! Turn off all the Michigan A/C for all I care, but you ain't messin' with Dixie's!!!!!

[nascarnation]

Start the crusade with Mayor Bloomie’s Suburban !!

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hizzoner_cold_feat_lYxDIMuat7x4PL7nUbdBEM

[p. henry]

I just wish I had air. I live within sight of the Pacific, but today has been the first comfortable day in about two weeks.

[Fiji Hill]

And how many people living in New York City, Chicago and other “northern” cities is she willing to have die during summer heat waves once the airconditioning she railes against is turned off? And does she actually think about that?

A few years ago,thousands died when a heatwave struck France, where air conditioners are not abundant because they are usually not needed.

[Monterrosa-24]

I once remarked to the Rightist newspaper editor in El Salvador, Mario Rosenthal, that his views were far differnet than the famous Abe Rosenthal of the New York Times. He replied “Ah Rosenthal!, it is like “Smith” for Jews”.

So now we have yet another and she on the side of bad ole Abe instead of good ole Mario.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Will she turn her heat off in the Winter, too? Only makes sense. There’s a carbon footprint associated with that.

[xp38]

In Buffalo, New York, on July 17, 1902, in response to a quality problem experienced at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company of Brooklyn, Willis Carrier submitted drawings for what became recognized as the world's first modern air conditioning system. The 1902 installation marked the birth of air conditioning because of the addition of humidity control, which led to the recognition by authorities in the field that air conditioning must perform four basic functions: 1.) control temperature; 2.) control humidity; 3.) control air circulation and ventilation; 4.) cleanse the air.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Years back, I remember reading about Barbara Streisand and how she wanted everyone to line dry their clothes. Someone asked her assistant or someone close to her if BS line dried her clothes and the reply was pretty much ‘no’.

http://www.everything2.com/title/Barbra+Streisand+wants+you+to+turn+up+your+thermostat

[GreyFriar]

“OH fiddle faddle, there you go spreading those pro-air conditioning rumors!” Rosenthal’s most likely reply.

[stboz]

I hope this brat sweats on and shorts out her keyboard.