High-Altitude Temps In Hawaii Rising Faster Than Global Avg. As Islands' Rainfall Declines

[hatrack]

Global warming is already leading to rising temperatures in the mountains and declining rainfall in Hawaii, climate change experts said at a meeting Friday.

Temperatures at Hawaii's higher elevations are rising faster than the global average, said Deanna Spooner, coordinator of the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative. "It's getting hotter here faster than anywhere else in the world up in the upper elevations," Spooner said at the Honolulu meeting of the federal Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.

Rainfall levels, meanwhile, are falling. "Our freshwater resources are shrinking," she said.

The federal task force is holding five meetings around the country to hear how climate change is affecting communities and how people are coping. It has already held meetings in Portland, Ore., and Miami, and due to meet in Chicago on Thursday and in Denver on July 19.

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[mahina]

1. Um, guys? Please feel free to dive in to the comments section

because these deniers are killing me! Honestly! I'm trying my best but could really use some DU kokua.

[jxnmsdemguy65]

2. Isn't there a bad drought on the Big Island now?