Seems that a new report on last summer's nationwide heat wave ought to at least be giving Nevada's Jim Gibbons some serious thoughts (and pressure) about joining fellow Republican governors Schwarzennegger and Crist:
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.
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"Nevadans are starting to understand that global warming is affecting us right now, and that our elected officials need to start making some tough choices to protect our quality of life," said Kyle Davis, the Policy Director for the Nevada Conservation League and a member of the Governor's Climate Change Task Force.
The warming trends in Reno and other northern areas of the state are particularly noteworthy, since that region is more mountainous than, say, the always-arid Las Vegas (although it, too, has been seeing above-average temperatures).
The entire U.S. PIRG report, Feeling the Heat, is quite the read just scanning it over-- 56 pages in all-- but it more than magnifies this on a nationwide scale.
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