Weather-Obsessed Philly Gets Real About Climate Change

For all those people who have said things like, “Dude, I’m really digging this global warming. 60 degrees in February!”

Philadelphia Magazine has an interesting article this month about climate change from the perspective of how it is directly affecting Philadelphia. It takes into account the effects on everything from energy use to mental state – and is particularly poignant to for a city that is so strangely weather-obsessed.

“All in all, we’ve seen so much weather weirdness that our weather-obsessed city—which generally holds its meteorologists more accountable than its politicians—is asking one question: Is this just a freak blip on the Doppler? Or is it the start of something really big and scary and heinous: Permanent Climate Change?”

Read more here.


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