U.S. West warming faster than rest of world

As human activity and unchecked pressure against an already unstable global climate increase, Mother nature has began picking up her pace in response. It appears that many states in the West are heating twice as fast as the rest of the world.

This increased warming combined with drought conditions and massive losses of pine forests in Colorado and Southern Wyoming has the potential to create a run-away cycle of interlinked environmental disasters as forest fire season approaches.

“Since 2000 we have seen $2.7 billion in crop loss claims due to drought. Global warming is harming valuable commercial salmon fisheries, reducing hunting activity and revenues, and threatening shorter and less profitable seasons for ski resorts,” he said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The U.S. West is heating up at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the world and is likely to face more drought conditions in many of its fast-growing cities, an environmental group said on Thursday.

By analyzing federal government temperature data, the Natural Resources Defense Council concluded that the average temperature in the 11-state Western region from 2003-07 was 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit (0.94 degrees Celsius) higher than the historical average of the 20th century.

The global average increase for the same period was 1.0 degrees Fahrenheit (0.55 degrees Celsius).

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