Thursday, June 30, 2011

Is the climate changing?

Here in Los Alamos New Mexico, surrounded by the largest wildfire in New Mexico's history (almost 100,000 acres burned by tonight), we normally have about 7.5 cumulative inches of rain from Jan 1 to the end of June. This year we have 0.19 inches thus far, the deepest drought since records began to be kept. Texas and Arizona have similar stories, while to the North of us state after state is fighting massive flooding.

Don't tell me the climate isn't changing. We can certainly argue about why, and about how much human activity has contributed to it, but worldwide the weather is showing distinct changes.