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00:05I don't know.
00:35This is the rooftop of the Associated Press office here in
00:38Paris.
00:39I'm going to try a little experiment.
00:41This is a thermometer that I usually use at home in the kitchen to tell me whether my
00:44roast chicken is ready or not.
00:46It has the advantage of going up to high temperatures.
00:49Now out here in the sun, the thermometer is giving me a reading of 34 degrees.
00:55That's approaching about 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
00:58But let's see what happens when we put it on some zinc and see whether that reading
01:02changes.
01:0543, 44, 45, now I've left this up here for a couple of minutes and we're up to 48 degrees
01:12Celsius.
01:12Yes.
01:1344, 45, now I'm going to get as little as possible.
01:41It's been the worst week that we've had in this apartment.
01:45It started off okay.
01:46I thought it would be short.
01:49And the problem has just been that it doesn't recede even in the evening so you don't even
01:54get that time to have some cool air and to pretend it's not there before it comes back.
01:59And this particular apartment, because of the fact we have only one window and because of
02:04the fact it gets light from about midday to when the sun sets, which here is like 10pm,
02:10it means it's just baking in the whole afternoon and it's impossible to just get a respite from
02:25it.
02:26Just as to do, first of all, with the color, which is dark blue, which means that it clearly,
02:31instead of reflecting light and reflecting heat, it actually traps it within itself.
02:36And because there's probably a lack of insulation because these are pretty old buildings, like
02:39the apartment is recently renovated, but one of the biggest sources of emissions in France
02:44and in Europe is buildings.
02:46Not only construction materials and everything and construction processes, but mainly from using
02:51energy to cool down or heat up the buildings because they're not well insulated.
03:09how to work and I'm so divided by the water.
03:09All right, let's change the water.
03:09Let's say we have it.
03:10Let's take a look from the curtain from the curtain from the curtain of the curtain.
03:10Let's see.
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