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> If Europe was as willing to drill for gas as the US is, they'd probably be able to run more ACs and save thousands of lives every year.

They'd also be accelerating the collapse of AMOC... after which they won't need ACs anymore.

So I guess, yeah, this solves the problem of too much heat, in a fashion!

No need for that when solar power and nuclear exist. The problem in Poland, Germany etc is prematurely getting rid of perfectly good nuclear power plants, not lack of gas drilling.

Poland? Poland is currently building its first nuclear power plant (there was another attempt before, but it was abandoned in the 90s).

There are also a lot of smaller nuclear power plants planned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Poland

Please explain how we run AC to avoid our forests burning, agricultural fields and orchards from drying, and the Mediterranean ecosystem from collapsing.

We must stop using fossil fuels as fast as possible, globally.