Climate change
New Mexico’s big rise
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Since the 1980s, New Mexico has gotten warmer–and warmer.
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Scientists have finished crunching the numbers and say that 2015 is Earth’s warmest year by the “widest margin on record.”
In the Southwest, recent springtime stream flow forecasts have been pretty bleak. But now, scientists at the University of New Mexico are saying that actually, they’re probably not bleak enough. Forecasters might not have adjusted enough for a moving target that is increasingly a factor—the climate’s continual warming.
Climate represents general conditions in a particular region over a period of time. Weather happens on a day-to-day basis.