No. None intended, anyway. It’s a place or area. A location might work as well.
Is the sulphurous smell caused by the refining of something? Of coal?
*Did it stop being cool :
- within the last 10 years ? YES
- 10 to 25 years ago ? YES
- 25 to 100 years ago ? YES*
It happened in all three of the periods specified?
Was the process of becoming not-cool drawn out over a number of years ?
Did it change from cool to not-cool and back again several times?
Or was the answer *YES *to all three an error?
Is the smell a byproduct of (non-human) animal activity?
Is the smell a byproduct of plant activity (including decay)?
NO, since there is no sulfurous smell.
Is the smell the result of something the animals did, rather than the actual smell of the animals or their waste products?
Is the smell partly the result of domestic animal activity?
Is the smell partly the result of wild animal activity?
FORGET THE SMELL! Smell isn’t important and it may not smell that much at all. I have re-written it to be this:
I don’t think smell was important or even 100% accurate. It’s distracting.
Did sweltering conditions cause the smell?
kidding
Did something man-made cause the sweltering?
Yes.
Is the place that was once cool underground?
Yes.
Is it that fire they started to burn off excess gas, but is still burning to this day?
Googling, the name is “Door to Hell.”
Is it tundra?
No.
No.
Is it that town in Pennsylvania that has a coal fire?
Googles: Centralia.
No.
Is the temperature increase due to:
- Combustion?
- Radiation?
- Geothermal?
- Solar?
Is it in the United States?
Was the hottening an accident?
Embedded.