Climate change spares no one, including us here in Sanpete County. Already we are experiencing higher temperatures, drier soils, and more wildfires, flash floods, and struggling farms and ranches.  This summer, smoke from climate-change-fueled fires elsewhere hung thick in our air for days and even weeks at a time.  

Is recent climate change real and, if so, is it human-caused?  Pre-eminent scientific organizations in the U.S. and the world have definitely answered those questions:  yes and yes.