Arizona's global warming winter of 06
TUCSON -- It is a warm and dry 'winter' in the Sonoran Desert this year. Very warm and dry. 81 on Christmas. A global warming winter.05 was the hottest year on record and 06 may go higher. Summer (and Spring & Fall) this year may be killers, superhot, especially more at night with 'urban heat island' effect.
Global warming is a big threat to Arizona. Some places could become virtually unlivable much of the year. Water is already very limited, and more heat, agriculture, people and sprawl mean we'll use more precious H2O. Rivers will further suffer.
We are in for a wild hot ride in the future. At some point we won't be able to turn the A/C up high enough to escape.
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Meanwhile, the southwestern U.S. gets hotter and drier as the jet (the boundary between hot and cool air, and also the stormtrack) moves northward, and higher water surface temperatures result in more and larger hurricanes-- both forecast by global warming models as early as the 1970's.
There will always be people who deny that there is global warming, or when confronted with the evidence, will deny that people have anything to do with it. But they are like the people who deny that smoking causes cancer, claim that the Apollo landings were filmed in a Hollywood studio, or who insist that there is an empty casket buried under Elvis' tombstone. They are a bunch of nuts, and it's not worth arguing with screwballs.
Lucky we are underpopulated here and have a good aquifer, which makes us the luckiest people in Arizona.