Climate change already changing New Mexico

According to an article in today’s edition of the Albuquerque Journal, a report says that “the effects of human-caused climate change” are already being felt in New Mexico. The effects come in the form of “rising temperatures and dwindling snowpacks.”There looks to be plenty of reason to be concerned. Albuquerque Journal science writer John Fleck tells of some of the effects that man-made climate change will have on New Mexico:
The website for the “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States” report says, “Recent warming in the Southwest has been among the most rapid in the nation.”
The effects will be felt not only in areas like the agriculture of our region, but also in the “unique tourism and recreation opportunities.”
“Rising temperatures will adversely affect winter activities such as downhill and cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling,” the Southwest area of the website on the report states.