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Climate change likely to heat up Western Colorado

Grand Junction Free Press: Western Colorado could get 6 degrees warmer by 2080, which would make Grand Junction feel like somewhere in Arizona - although probably not as far south as Phoenix. The higher temperatures would also increase the severity of droughts. That was part of the message given by Dr. Jeff Lukas of the Western Water Assessment team at the University of Colorado in the lecture he gave for Colorado Mesa University's Natural Resources of the West Seminar Series on Monday evening titled, "Drought and Climate...