Sally Mauk: University of Montana climate change speaker worried about lasting consequences

Montana is getting warmer. The debate is about what, if anything, we should do about it.

When I first emigrated from Kansas to Montana, the winter was routinely cold and snowy, spring was wet and cool, and summer was short and mild. At some point, that all changed and winters became snowy and rainy, I was playing tennis outside in March, and summers became so hot and smoky that my visiting Kansas relatives, no strangers to heat and humidity, gave me the ultimatum that if I didn’t get air conditioning I would never again have the pleasure of their company.

By SALLY MAUK for the Missoulian missoulian.com

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