Study: Nevada Has Big Temperature Gains

[lovuian]

http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynamic/stories/W/WARMER_NEVADA?SITE=NYNYP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-07-25-21-41-21

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Nevada is among the states with the most dramatic increase in average temperatures the last 30 years, according to a new study that examines the impact of global warming across the country.

The average temperature in Reno from June through August last year was 75.6 degrees, almost 7 degrees above the 30-year average, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group reported. The gap was the biggest measured nationally.

Las Vegas' average temperature last summer was 3.6 degrees above the 30-year average from 1971-2000, while Elko's was 4 degrees above normal and Ely's was 2.1 degrees hotter, the report said.

"The scientific evidence of global warming is incontrovertible, and Nevada is feeling the heat more intensely than most of the rest of the U.S," said Stephen M. Rowland, Professor of Geology at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Its Hot and now even Hotter

[bemildred]

1. I would not measure it in the cities.

All those air conditioners running ...

[JacquesMolay]

2. They buy water from out of state, too...

... Nevada is going to be unlivable, economically and environmentally, in a few years. There's too much debt and too much money leaving the country to keep a vacation enterprise like Las Vegas going. The country is going to have a hard time absorbing all of the refugees.

[datadiva]

3. My son lives about 30 minutes from Reno

I can attest to how hot its been. When there should have been snow at his in-laws house just outside Reno in the hills, there was no snow. Weird weather.

[lovuian]

4. sounds like of all America Reno and Nevada is

getting the brunt of the heat