Royal Commission Studies the Problem of Heat (or, more properly, the lack of air conditioning in civil service offices)

A respondent wrote to me about how she and her colleagues were suffering with un-air conditioned office working in the British civil service. I responded with how Canada would effeciently tackle the problem:

A Royal Commission on Air Conditioning would have to be called together in order to evaluate your need for air conditioning. This Royal Commission would receive about $12 million in funding -- and would spend about $20 million, with no repercussions. This Royal Commission would also come together around December of 2012 and would study your need for air conditioning until about March. And their verdict or official conclusion would be "We the Royal Commission on Air Conditioning find no grounds for the request of air conditioning in the offices housing our civil servants. There is probably a need for increased heating as our civil servants were seen to move with the lethargy of snowmen in these offices that were distinctly cold, but since no request for additional heating was made another Royal Commission will have to study this need at a later time."

And so civilization marches forward.