Climate change impacts on Sierra Nevada

Climate change is already impacting the southern Sierra Nevada and will have profound effects on everything from water supplies and forest fires to the survival of giant sequoias, researchers said Thursday. They spoke at the Southern Sierra Science Symposium in Visalia, which featured scientists read more

The Sierra Nevada’s show warming’s effect

This was pulled from the Sacramento Bee and applies to the Yosemite area but if we look around it applies to the lee side of the Sierra Nevada’s, to Lake Tahoe and Desolation Wilderness, to the high lakes near Kirkwood, even to the snow melt that used to rush down the East Fork of the read more

Global Warming and Northern Nevada

There are so many different factors that contribute to global warming that no single entity could ever claim to understand all the intricacies of why warming happens, how it happens, to what extent damage might occur and if it is a natural occurrence or man made. I think it’s obvious taking read more

Global Warming and Nevada

This is an interesting study done by an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The statistic and general information is on a PDF and posted at the bottom of this lead. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates average temperatures in Nevada could rise about 6.75 degrees read more

It’s Getting Hot Out Here

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 read more