“Researchers from the University of Colorado and Kansas State University have been awarded a grant for more than $850,000 to study the impacts of climate change on prairie dogs in the Boulder area.”

CU to study impact of climate change on Boulder prairie dogs – Boulder Daily Camera

There hasn’t been any climate change in the Boulder area.  What is it that they were studying?

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/all/USC00050848.dly