PARIS -- France has had a bad summer. Its first heat wave in June was part of a wider Europe-spanning scorcher where temperatures went from the usual 20s and 30s to the dangerously broiling numbers of high 30s to low 40s. The heat waves, or canicules, recalled the now record swelter of summer 2003 complete with the predictable forest fires in the south and the pine barren blazes in the southeast. The August 2003 canicule caused as many as 15,000 deaths, mostly of older home-bound people. Why then have they done so little to mitigate these symptoms of hot summers? Naturally there’s the official Green government position which has genuinely lessened carbon emissions. France and the European Union countries are tirelessly proving they are leaders in cutting emissions, though given the usually poor air quality in Paris that’s hard to believe. But what about making homes, apartments and public transportation cooler for people who live in the present and not in the hypothetical climate charts of 10 and 15 years hence? Many newer buildings and homes have air conditioning as do most hotels a