AMS president Marshall Shepherd works with a doctoral student who is trying to sell the idea that the southeastern US is warming

Climate change could hit Atlanta hardest, UGA research predicts | Online Athens

Breaking the climate data into 10-year increments (except for the most recent segment, which includes eight years), she found that Georgia is indeed getting hotter and drier, especially over the past eight years.
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Climate assessments and the peer-reviewed literature have noted that since 1980 Georgia and the Southeast are warming...The American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Statement on Climate Change (http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2012climatechange.html) summarized the scientific literature and noted growing frequency of floods, heat waves and droughts, said UGA atmospheric scientist Marshall Shepherd, who worked with her on the research.
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“We are seeing increases in extreme events and they affect our economy, security and property,” said Shepherd, who is president of the AMS and is KC’s doctoral adviser.

Flashback: If CO2 is really such an all-powerful warming factor, and if the science is so settled, why does warmist Gavin Schmidt have so much trouble explaining why the southeastern US hasn't warmed since the 1930s?: "Whether this is due to some oddity in the weather patterns, air pollution effects, irrigation or something else is unclear."