Last week, Aztec, New Mexico was -34F (-37C.) Brutal heat.
http://realclimate.science/2011/01/02/minus-37c-in-new-mexico/
And precipitation in New Mexico has been increasing over the last 115 years..
http://realclimate.science/2011/01/06/precipitation-in-new-mexico-has-increased-by-10/
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I lived in New Mexico for 30 years before departing to Phoenix’s Valley of the Fierce Sun in 1994. When I returned for a visit to my mountain home east of Albuquerque a few years later, I was stunned to see arroyos flowing with constant spring-fed water where they hadn’t flowed like that during my entire life there. On other occasions when looking at recent photos of the area or watching a PBS video of a skunk-rescuer living there, the difference in the now-green grass compared to all the dryness I saw made me jealous.
Sure, they had their bark beetle problems for a while lately, but is that an AGW symptom? Probably not. And also, where were the cries of concern about the dustbowl-style incursions of dust from the eastern side of the state during the early ’50s? My parents had photos of that situation, it looked terrible.
It is stories like this that make me want to call the NM Governor and BEG to come work for her.
Sadly, I live in the NW, home of the green church.
They just cannot get over their own inadequacies. I guess since they have nothing to be proud of – they have to use inflammatory terms to denigrate those with more gray cells then they have.