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Fro Igloos to Air Conditioners

Filed in archive Int'l Development by mstandaert on August 10, 2006

Fro Igloos to Air Conditioners
Story from ENN:

With signs that the world is warming, even Inuit peoples of the far north are ordering air conditioning.

Better known for building igloos during hunts on the polar ice, Inuit in the village of Kuujjuaq in Quebec, Canada, are installing 10 air conditioners for about 25 office workers.

"These are the times when the far north has to have air conditioners now to function," said Sheila Watt-Cloutier, a leading campaigner for the rights of 155,000 Inuit in Canada, Alaska, Russia and Greenland.

"Our Arctic homes are made to be airtightlinks for the cold and do not 'breathe' well in the heat with this warming trend," she said. Temperatures in Kuujjuaq, home to 2,000 people, hit 88 Fahrenheit in late July.

If the Inuit are feeling the heat, chances are that people further south are sweltering too.


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