Denver7 chief meteorologist Mike Nelson and 'Colorado Matters' host Ryan Warner hold their monthly climate conversation.
The following is a transcription of the August 2023 climate conversation between Denver7 chief meteorologist Mike Nelson and Colorado Public Radio’s Ryan Warner for CPR’s “Colorado Matters” show.In this week’s discussion:
Why so much severe weather in Colorado? Mike Nelson breaks down busy weather season, record heat with CPR RW: Why don't we talk about this cooling period? – Well, maybe, first, we could talk about the heat. Yeah, let's talk about the heat. We are getting a bit of a reprieve from it. August weather outlook RW: You and I have talked about this in the past but you know, there was obviously a good stretch in Colorado – as homes were being built – where air conditioning wasn't de rigueur, that living in Colorado meant it was okay to do so without air conditioning.
RW: A new term that's being used to describe this is, compound disasters. Extreme weather amplifying other effects, and that could include human errors with things like disaster response. When it comes to climate change, have we moved past the mitigation stage to the adaptation stage? MN: Fossil fuels are a modern miracle. Life without it is cold, dark and short. But the fact of the matter is – and if you will – the inconvenient truth is, that carbon that's added into the atmosphere warms up the planet at a rate that is far faster than we saw in any of the major extinctions in prehistoric times. And so we are going to have to deal with this not just as a state, as a nation, but as a world to come together to stop adding more fossil carbon to the atmosphere.
RW: I understand a hail stone fell that would break…. well, more than records, if it hit something. You probably heard about this hailstone, Mike Nelson.
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