{"id":66,"date":"2008-11-04T11:53:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/11\/04\/a-new-slogan-for-reno\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T11:53:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:53:32","slug":"a-new-slogan-for-reno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2008\/11\/04\/a-new-slogan-for-reno\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Slogan for Reno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reno, NV has long laid claim to being &#8220;The Biggest Little City in the World.&#8221; Now it could claim to be one of the fastest-warming towns in America.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reno Arch\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/files\/2008\/11\/reno_arch_sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/files\/2008\/11\/reno_arch_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Reno Arch\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a survey of US cities from <a title=\"Environment America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentamerica.org\/\">Environment America<\/a>,\u00a0 Reno averaged 4 degrees (Fahrenheit) above&#8221;normal&#8221; for the calendar year 2007. Citing data from the <a title=\"Nat'l Climatic Data Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/oa\/ncdc.html\">National Climatic Data Center<\/a>, the report said that temperatures tended above normal for most of the nation (&#8220;normal&#8221; is defined as the 30-year average from 1971-2000), but few cities made the exclusive plus-four-degree club.<\/p>\n<p>More telling, perhaps, is the average minimum temperature (overnight low), which clocked in at an eyebrow-raising 5.5 degrees above normal in Reno. Climatologists have noted that throughout the West, &#8220;T-minimums&#8221; (overnight lows) have been rising almost twice as fast as daytime highs, partially obscuring for many the sensation that things are warming up.<\/p>\n<p>Environment America can be justifiably challenged for implying that one year&#8217;s worth of temperature records is any indication of generalized long-term warming. It isn&#8217;t. The group takes the position that the warm 2007 was part of a broader trend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Between 2000 and 2007, the average temperature was at least 0.5 degrees F above the 30-year average at 228 (89%) of the stations examined (nationwide).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reno also made the hot list for cities that showed the most deviation from normal (3.5 degrees F), during the eight-year period 2000-2007. Of all the data collected in the report, this is the most useful number to use in making a case for a persistent warming trend. Skeptics might argue that even eight years of data can be misleading and they&#8217;d be right&#8211;but other studies have been more than sufficient to confirm that the West is warming. The debate has largely shifted to what to do about it.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of: <a title=\"Reno-Sparks CVA main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visitrenotahoe.com\/\">RSCVA<\/a> &amp; VisitRenoTahoe.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reno, NV has long laid claim to being &#8220;The Biggest Little City in the World.&#8221; Now it could claim to be one of the fastest-warming towns in America. 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