Quotes by Alan Thorpe

“Phoenix temperatures have been going up because of the urbanization. Previously vegetative surfaces were replaced by concrete buildings, and they hold the heat.”

“Global warming will significantly affect the reduction of rainfall in Phoenix and the amount of air pollution in the summer. It will go up, because a lot of the air pollution is created by the sunlight interaction with very warm polluted air that will produce smog.”

“People get concerned when temperatures at night get very high. With temperatures being 10 degrees higher, nightly minimums will get high as well, and people find that uncomfortable.”

“There are a number of knock-on effects of changing climate and environment that people can find hard to cope with.”

“Essentially the more we pollute the atmosphere, the more we can expect these [negative] effects to occur. We are beginning to see points, such as melting of the Greenland ice sheet, that if we dont do anything about it, we will be witnessing potentially irreversible changes.”

“For me coming from England, I think that for Phoenix having so much sunshine, solar panels would be a great way to generate electricity.”