KESQ - A Cathedral City student is sounding the alarm about climate change and potentially devastating effects on tourism in the Coachella Valley.
Cindy Yañez is a graduate student researcher in earth system science. In a new climate change study for UC Riverside, she predicts increasing temperature could shorten the snowbird season by several months.
"Because the snowbird season brings in so much revenue to this region, we think that will affect not only the tourists and where they get to vacation, but it also impacts the residents because that impacts how much revenue the cities get, which all ends up going into the people who live here," she said.