Independent (UK): In 1992, Cambridge University anthropologist Gwyn Prins wrote the paper “On Condis and Coolth” in the academic journal Energy and Buildings, slamming air conditioning addicts. He labelled them “condis”, and their preferred refrigerated climate, “coolth”, arguing AC was the ultimate example of needless luxury in an already gluttonous society. In an elegant, influential tirade, Prins warned of worsening “global warming”, a term so rarely used at the time that it still warranted inverted …