Report: Las Vegas, Reno see greatest temperature increases

(The Center Square) – Over the past 55 years, Las Vegas and Reno have warmed faster than any other U.S. city.

That’s according to a recent report that looked at temperatures in 242 U.S. cities since 1970. The researchers found that Southwestern cities warmed faster than any other region, while experts explained how the issue already affected the wallets and daily lives of Nevadans.

“People make really difficult trade-offs when it’s hot here in Southern Nevada,” Ariel Choinard, who leads the Desert Research Institute’s Nevada Heat Lab, told The Center Square. “We know that people choose between paying their electricity bill for cooling and doing things like getting groceries on the table, affording medication and paying for transportation.”

Climate change costs the average American household between $400 and $900 annually. The 10% of families in the most-impacted U.S. counties pay an average of $1,300 per year due to climate change, according to a recent report ...