ARVADA, Colo. — Vice President Kamala Harris highlighted the complexities and interconnected challenges posed by climate change during a visit to the Denver metro area Monday.
Harris, a Democrat, spoke to an at-capacity, 500-person auditorium, and overflow rooms at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. Dozens of state and local elected officials were in attendance. She was joined by newly elected Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen, of Arvada, and world-class rock climber Sasha DiGiulian, of Boulder.
The three Westerners — Harris is from California — noted the extreme threat climate change and the drought it drives pose to the region. Harris, who landed at Denver International Airport from Los Angeles, recalled the much-needed snow covering the California mountains as she left. But also the danger the snowpack posed if it melted into a flood. She called it a weather whiplash.
