The situation in France this summer appears to be very similar to that in Chicago in 1995: an unusually hot summer in a place where many people don't have air conditioning. And the average high in June and July in France is 75...I believe this was the hottest summer there in 40 years.
And while Chirac couldn't have predicted the weather, he should have been in France while this was going on. Imagine if Dubya was at the ranch in Texas on 9/11 and just stayed there. It's more of a psychological boost than anything.
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