Last week I was eating dinner at a restaurant in Colorado Springs, and overheard two waitresses talking about Arizona. One of them used to work at a bar in downtown Prescott. I joined in their conversation, and the other waitress said “I have never been there, but I hear it is really hot in Arizona all the time.” I responded with “Not this year, they had several snowstorms near Phoenix and it has been quite cool and wet.” She responded with a very concerned look, and said “wow, things are changing everywhere.”
Today I was talking to my next door neighbor’s uncle, and he asked me what I did. I told him that I work for a company in Phoenix. He said he used to live there and went into a rant about how Phoenix has no business being there, and it is too hot and dry. I told him that it has been cool and wet this year, and the wildflowers were amazing. He responded with “Climate change is having strange effects everywhere.”
Hot/dry/wet/cold/perfect weather – all caused by a 0.0001 mole fraction increase in CO2 over the past century.
