Posted on 08/10/2006 7:22:41 AM PDT by cogitator
A new website dedicated to reporting on how climate change is affecting the world's ski areas, glaciers and polar regions has been launched at www.saveoursnow.com.
The simple, low-budget site is none-the-less rich in content, which includes:
# A database listing what each of the world's top 200 ski areas is doing to fight climate change.
# A news archive of relevant stories.
# A directory of travel operators who make an effort to counter the increase in global warming their activities generate.
# Details of the varying projections of the increasing affects of climate change on the world's mountainous and polar regions through this century.
# The site also has a Q&A section on Global Warming and a list of useful web links to relevant organisations.
All content for saveoursnow.com has been compiled by ski writer Patrick Thorne, based in the Highlands of Scotland. His company has monitored the world's ski areas and published a global weekly ski news service for the past 20 years.
"Over the past five or ten years I've noticed that the typical annual spend for ski resorts has switched from new lifts to ever increasing snow making. I have also witnessed glaciers I skied on 20 years ago melting away in front of my eyes. I am very concerned that there doesn't seem to be enough global concern and pooled effort on what's happening to our planet." said Patrick.
"I am in a position to try to report the facts as impartially as I can and that's what I'm doing with this site."
saveoursnow.com is a not-for-profit website and accepts no sponsorship or advertising in a bid to stay impartial; links are only made to organisations that work to publicise the issues or try to help the environment. Operating costs are covered by online donations from supporters.
"There's a lot more to say and I hope to be able to expand the site as resources allow to provide for more helpful information in the near future," said Patrick. "Sadly this issue will only get more significant, the ski industry is the metaphorical "miner's canary" or world climate change."
Like heating buildings and producing "evil" co2. Operating snowmobiles and other co2 producing machines, such as generators, and causing large amounts of traffic to and from the resort.
The only way they can "fight" the precieved human causes of "global warming" is to close their doors. They will always be a net contributer to global warming. No amount of taxation for lift tickets, ski rentals, and parking will prevent it.
Banning John kerry and his SUV convoy from the hill might make the experience more pleasant however.
Thanks for the link.
Rich white people hardest hit.
Where will the Kerrys ski?
This doesn't change my plans to purchase the Palace Hotel in Gstaad.
Global warming is here, folks. If you don't believe me you really ought to view "An Inconvenient Truth" ASAP.
Oh no!
Well, the records indicate that this last winter was pretty warm. Snowfall amounts are particularly variable (fickle?) year to year, so it's hard to gauge global warming via snowfall. But it's considerably warmer now in general than in the 1970s when I was growing up in Wisconsin; I know that ponds and lakes don't stay consistently frozen as long. There was an interesting study by a University of Wisconsin professor that showed winter freeze-up is occurring later, and spring thaw earlier, over the past 150 years or so. That would be consistent with global warming.
Wow, so all that global warming happened in only one year.
No snow last winter, but lots of snow the previous winter, so global warming is here? That's the problem with you liberals, you want so much to believe in the evil corporations and wasteful Americans, that you will bend your minds into a pretzel to figure out a way to justify your beliefs. Get real!
Longer growing seasons.
Provided nothing else changes.
There are plenty of technological ways to stop global warming if it's real without raising taxes or destroying the American economy. Once the liberals know that they'll forget about global warming.
I agree; I posted on the new DOE bioenergy initiative today, too.
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