Hot enough for you?
It's nice for Utah to be on the cutting edge of a trend for once, but I could have passed on this one.
Five years of government data shows that Utah and Arizona are heating up faster than anywhere else in the world. For two years, the average temperature in the Colorado River Basin has been more than two degrees hotter than the historical average for the 20th century. The temperature increase was double the global average and it's accelerating.
Says one of the report's authors:
Many people don't think global warming is actually upon us. They think it is something that will happen sometime down the road. It's changing life in the West as we know it today.Relax. Most of the Utah Legislature, led by Reps. Becky Lockhart and John Dougall, will tell you this study and similar findings from the governor's climate change panel is bologna. Stupid scientists.
UPDATE: Needs proof that no one is listening to the eggheads? At an economic summit on downtown redevelopment this week, the far-sighted president of the LDS's holding company, Mark Gibbons, announced the underground parking is designed to handle "an Expedition with a ski rack, for which, I'm sure, you'll be very grateful."
Ah, but by the 2011 completion date, will Utah have snow?
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And as your own newspaper reports this morning, John McCain said in his fundraising trip here yesterday that "water will be probably the most critical natural resource issue facing the West in this century." But still, we're building up St. George and environs like there's no tomorrow. More golf courses in Las Vegas and Mesquite. All water in this state is currently being paid for with paper, people. It's going to be more precious and endangered than oil, and soon. But nobody cares.
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