Selma Enterprise: Is a slow global rise in average temperature responsible for the hotter-than-normal weather the Central Valley has had over the last 17 months?
The answers from Pasadena-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory Climatologist Bill Patzert and Visalia-based WeatherAg.com meteorologist Scott Borgioli were a little bit of yes and a lot of no.
Patzert blamed the last two years of hotter weather mostly on changes in sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean he said have been driving the state record...