Today's climate change snapshot: "Air conditioners come to the Arctic" [View All]

http://nunatsiaq.com/news/climate/60616_01.html

KUUJJUAQ — Climate change is changing policy: this is the first summer that workers in Nunavik’s official buildings and businesses will be allowed to cool off with air conditioners.

That’s because Quebec’s energy office has finally changed a policy that prohibited the use of air conditioners in the region.

... In preparation for a hot summer ahead, the Northern Village of Kuujjuaq had already ordered a bunch of new air conditioners, which arrived before last week’s heat wave.

A good thing, because at 3 p.m. last Thursday, temperatures in Kuujjuaq hit 29°C, breaking the previous record for this date of 26.1°C set back in 1974.

The normal average daytime temperature in Kuujjuaq on June 8 is 10.7°C.

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