Yesterday, Environment Colorado released a report called “Feeling the Heat” which showed that temperatures are rising across the US and especially in Colorado due to global warming. The temperatures are higher in Colorado due to the elevation and also the inland location of the state.
Key Findings on Colorado were:
• In 2006, the average temperature was 3.8°F above average in Denver. Nationally, the average 2006 temperature was at least 0.5°F above normal at 87% of the locations studied.
• Over the course of 2006, Grand Junction experienced 75 days where the temperature hit at least 90°F, 11 days more than the historical average. Heat waves have serious implications for human health, causing heat stroke, heat exhaustion, and even death.
• Colorado Springs experienced average minimum temperatures — the lowest temperatures recorded on a given day, usually at night — of 2.4°F above normal in 2006 and 3.9°F above normal during the 2006 summer. Warmer nighttime temperatures exacerbate the public health effects of heat waves, since people need cooler nighttime temperatures to recover from excessive heat exposure during the day.
The data was obtained from the National Climatic Data Center collected from 255 weather stations across the US. This rise in temperature is something that we can expect to see in the future if we don’t take action against global warming. 2007 is already predicted to be one of the hottest years on record. Let’s reduce global warming pollution before it’s too hot to enjoy Colorado!
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don’t know about you, but IMO, it already is too hot to enjoy CO.
Ya hear that – everyone who is thinking about moving here – it is too hot. The winters are too cold as well. Nothing here, nothing to see, stay home.
Extremely high rates of melanoma, don’t you know:
http://fox21news.com…
Didn’t we have a cold, snowy winter and a wet and cold spring?
One year does mean a thing.
And, to those of you thinking about moving here, our forests are usually on fire and our schools suck. Did anyone mention Ward Churchill, Tom Tancredo, Focus on the Family, Elk wasting disease and the CU football team? I heard that Hanta virus was recently reported in several Colorado counties.
Better to move to Iowa.
Did we mention there’s West Nile virus and the bubonic plauge in City Park?
When you think of denver think Tuberculoceis
Will that do it?
As for the rest of you, crack me up!
Global average surface temperatures increased by more than 1.4 degrees farenheit since the second half of the 19th century. Temperatures on average are on the rise. As for the somewhat wacky weather in 2007, rising global temperatures not only increase the likelihood for heat waves to occur and persist but also for the background conditions in which weather forms. The result can be unpredictable and erratic weather patterns, so with continued warming we can expect to see more of the up-and-down weather much of the country experienced in the first part of 2007.
The higher-than-normal temperatures of 2006 is not a freak occurance. The past 9 years have all been among the 25 warmest years on record for the contiguous US, an unprecedented streak in the historical record and part of a steady, long-term increase in average temperatures over the last century.
Global warming is a global problem but we can take action in Colorado to be a leader in solving global warming.
…what? Lower local temperatures?
When I drive a Prius, recycle, reduce my carbon footprint, conserve water, buy organic, local produce and limit driving, how is it going to reduce global warming trends when the US, China, India, Russia, Africa and all continue to run industry?
What is done in the West can make a big difference. Arizona and Colorado each emit more carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel use than 174 nations do. Colorado alone emitted 22.9 million metric tons of carbon in 2000. This means that Colorado’s actions make a big impact on the total amount of global warming pollution in the world. If we take steps as a state to reduce global warming pollution and join the Western Climate Initiative to participate in a regional cap-and-trade program with other Western States, we will be a leader in reducing global warming pollution which hopefully other states, our nation and other nations will follow.
Also, the things we do to reduce pollution are good for our health, economy and environment so we should reduce pollution regardless of what other nations are doing.