In warmer world, even Inuit buy air conditioners

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 airtight 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 31 Celsius (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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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060807/sc_nm/environment_warming_dc

There is no evidence of global warming according to our fearless leader.

Pigs must be flying today.

:shrug:

How any half-educated person can claim there's nothing out of the ordinary going on with our climate is beyond me.

:shrug:

They're pretty cyclical, and I'm sure they have to do with our orbit or whatnot. Let's say we end global warming (which I hope we do!). Won't we still head into an ice age eventually?

Here's a good article:

http://www.discover.com/issues/sep-02/cover/

They talk about a return to colder temperatures, but not to the degree of the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago.