For sprawling cities with lots of paved land, the heat island effect is going to be widespread, and in the United States, this may be true nowhere other than in desert cities like Phoenix. As a result, and in the not too distant future, Phoenix is likely to be uninhabitable. Some Arizona counties will experience temperatures above 95 degrees for more than half of the year, according to the study's findings. Arizona's other five counties face similar climate change problems, but with slightly lower intensities.
According to Quay, the first time the river level drops extremely low, the scarcity will only be felt by farmers in Arizona, meaning they will start getting water from wells. The study's findings included Pinal County in Arizona as the second county in the United States with the highest risk of being uninhabitable. Quay told me that I shouldn't frame all these drought projections as a climate change that condemns Arizonans to die of thirst. Ray Quay, a researcher at the Decision Center for a Desert City project at the Global Institute for Sustainability at Arizona State University, told me that water is taken for granted right now.
Arizona climate experts agree with data showing that rising heat and wildfires put the state at special risk. The study projected declines in agricultural crop yields in the state, but experts said the uniqueness of agriculture in Arizona and water use in the state could invalidate that projection. Researchers at Arizona State University say future projections show that warming caused by urban development would be similar to that caused by greenhouse gases if development and emissions remain as they are now. ARIZONA, USA UU.
Six of Arizona's counties are at risk of becoming uninhabitable in the near future due to climate change, according to a study by ProPublica and Rhodium Group. However, in Arizona, the vast majority of resources and the scant amount of regulations that the state has established go only to areas around Phoenix and Tucson, while the rest of the state is left to fend for themselves. Professor Kathy Jacobs, director of the Center for Science and Solutions for Climate Adaptation at the University of Arizona, was also skeptical about the metrics of agricultural crop yield. However, according to Jacobs, one of the best things Arizonans can do when faced with all of these environmental problems is to see them related to the other problems we've been experiencing, rather than separating themselves from them.
The Arizona counties included in the list, which included Pinal, Graham, Cochise, Mohave, Yuma and Maricopa, were among the 100 most at-risk counties in the United States. This is because an agreement they made in the 1960s says that among those who drink from the Colorado River (Southern Californians also drink from the same stream, for example), Arizona would be the first state to ration. Last summer, numerous heat records were broken in Arizona, including the hottest summer on record, the most days of 110 and 115 degrees in a year, and many other daily records.
