Electric
Forced Air Heaters
Coleman Heaters for Greenland
The modern day practices of man, like
the extensive use of fossil fuels for transportation, the burning
of plastic materials, and so forth and so on has affected adversely
the earth's ozone layer. The burned fuels have caused the thinning
of the ozone layer (even bored a hole through it) which is now breached
by the intense heat of the sun's rays, and raising the temperatures
throughout the globe. This has caused the gradual melting of the
world's ice caps.
Greenland, the biggest island on earth, situated on top of the world,
always had thick ice covering it for centuries, but is now experiencing
a change of what used to be only the gradual melting of its ice
cover. Greenland is a self-governing Danish province, very sparsely
populated by humans, maybe even less than the number of polar bears
in the area.
Scientists are now closely studying this
very recent phenomenon of an accelerated rate of melting of the
ice cover, spending their time out on the melting island, battling
the cold temperatures, especially at nighttime with the Coleman
heaters that they have as primary equipment against the icy
temperatures in the area.
It is just good that there are helicopters now that can support
them living out in that icy wasteland for weeks, even months, otherwise
traveling around would have been more difficult. The principal means
of traveling over the ice before was with the use of sleds towed
by dogs used to the icy temperatures all their lives.
It is only the men out there now,
not born in the area, who need some assistance in keeping warm at
bed time, and have to rely largely on the electric
forced air heaters for some warmth in order to be able to get
some much needed sleep. These are the scientists tasked in researching
in Greenland for scientific clues essential for a better understanding
of the problem.
The Eskimos however who are natives of the icy North Pole were born
practically on the ice, and like the sled dogs and the salmon abundant
in the icy sea waters, are comfortable with the subzero temperatures
year round. They may not need the camping
water heater, since they are experts in keeping themselves warm
enough in their igloos even with the little fires they are able
to keep going throughout the night inside their icy abodes.
The non-Eskimos however who are now forced to spend days out in
the fields of Greenland gathering data on what is happening to the
ice cover have to rely much on the portable Coleman heaters. Sometimes
forced to stay away from their base camps and getting benighted
out in the ice, these scientists bed down in makeshift tents kept
warm by the Coleman heaters.
Their canned food rations they have to subsist on while out on these
expeditions somehow get fast and convenient heating using the Coleman
heaters. At least they do not necessarily have to eat icy meals
as a consolation while they are out in the fields on extended trips.
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