CBS Exposes European Climate Arrogance in the Face of Deadly Heat Wave

Jorge Bonilla
June 30th, 2026 12:18 AM

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It is not often that a report inadvertently and brutally exposes the left’s disregard for human life in service of their policy goals. But this report on the European heat wave does precisely that.

Watch the report in its entirety as aired on CBS Evening News on Monday, June 29th, 2026:

TONY DOKOUPIL: We are launching a new series here tonight, something we are calling The Big Question- the first one inspired by our news of more than a thousand heat-related deaths in Europe. The continent has more heat-related deaths per capita than anywhere else on the planet but in fact fewer hot days. So why is the heat in Europe so much deadlier than everywhere else? He is Leigh Kiniry with The Big Question.

LEIGH KINIRY: In Europe, there's a perfect storm. The oldest population on any continent that's warming the fastest. France's record heat last week is linked to roughly 1000 deaths of mostly elderly.

INE VANDECASTEELE: All climate related impacts on hazards, heat is the biggest killer.

KINIRY: European officials are calling for change, but not the kind that may seem obvious.

Install air conditioning, especially for vulnerable people, and save lives. Why is that not a solution in Europe?

VANDECASTEELE: My honest response is I don't think that should be the solution anywhere. In the longer term, what happens is installing more air conditioning actually emits more heat into our environment so it will actually increase the speed of warming.

KINIRY: It's also more expensive. Energy prices are much higher in Europe. Governments find other ways to cool historic and densely populated cities. In Rome, wearable technology is distributed to monitor the elderly who are by far in the most danger. 

A recent survey in France said one in six people they surveyed said they'd rather suffer for the sake of the environment. Does that surprise you?

VANDECASTEELE: No. We’re not doing this for us. We’re doing this for the future generations.

KINIRY: Leigh Kiniry, CBS News, London.

The Big Obvious Answer to The Big Question is that Eurocrats refuse to allow the adoption of air conditioning across the Old Continent, even as thousands of people die of heat-related illnesses. Over a thousand dead across the CURRENT heat wave is staggering, which makes Eurocrat rhetoric more maddening.

This exchange is revelatory:

LEIGH KINIRY: A recent survey in France said one in six people they surveyed said they'd rather suffer for the sake of the environment. Does that surprise you?

INE VANDECASTEELE: No. We’re not doing this for us. We’re doing this for the future generations.

There seems to be a script, because a French rapid response account for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted the same thing:

Meanwhile, thousands continue to die in furtherance of climate utopia. When explaining why the Europeans don’t adopt A/C, Kiniry cited higher energy prices. However, Kiniry fails to mention the staggering climate taxes levied on European energy. Additionally, Kiniry omits some of the auto-inflicted loss of capacity on the continent, such as the Germany’s decision to shut down their nuclear energy plants. That own-goal that left them reliant on foreign energy, which became prohibitively expensive at the outset of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Somehow, these facts get left off the reports. 

The report’s exposures of European climate policy as both callous and ineffective are not intentional. But they nonetheless perform a valuable service inasmuch as they expose their viewers to the logical conclusions of leftist policy- thousands dead so as not to disturb the climate.

 

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