Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

How climate change is affecting travel — and what you can do about it
Washington Post ^ | October 12, 2017 | By Christopher Elliott

Posted on 10/12/2017 11:01:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

When Kimberly Button drove her RV to Glacier National Park in Montana this summer, she expected relief from her muggy home town of Orlando. “We assumed that we’d have mild temperatures,” she says. “We couldn’t have been more wrong.”

Instead, the Rocky Mountains baked in mid-90-degree temperatures. Button’s family camper, which didn’t have air conditioning, felt like a sweatbox. “We were looking at each other,” Button says, “and saying, “How is it this hot in Glacier National Park?”

Earlier this year, Jessica Pociask, an ecologist and the founder of Wank Expeditions, a tour operator, had to cancel a tour to view harp seals in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence because of a lack of ice. “Climate change is having a massive impact on travel,” she says.

Micha Wacquier, who runs a tour operator called Puur Travel, has faced similar challenges with his trips to South Africa’s Kruger National Park.

So how do you travel during a time of extreme weather? There’s nothing you can do to change the climate, at least in the short term, but there are a few steps you can take to ensure that disruptions are kept to a minimum.

The threat of global warming also should influence where you go. Greg Geronemus, the co-chief executive of SmarTours, a tour operator, says more of his clients are asking him about “last chance” destinations that are threatened by climate change.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechangefraud; fakescience; globalism; globalwarming; hoax; journalism
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-56 next last
To: Mr_Moonlight

Your forecast is. It will be Dark tonight turning light by morning.


21 posted on 10/12/2017 11:25:07 AM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

Unadventurous adventurers blame the weather for spoiling their adventure?
Better stay inside from now on.


22 posted on 10/12/2017 11:26:23 AM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is the perfect temperature?

What is the perfect time and length of seasons?

Has it ever been this hot or hotter, cold or colder at times in the past?

To all the above: “How do you know?”


23 posted on 10/12/2017 11:29:59 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

-stay home
-kill yourself
-send more tax dollars to the UN


24 posted on 10/12/2017 11:30:18 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kozak

The only time it was hotter was when they were burning witches at the stake....literally....


25 posted on 10/12/2017 11:32:17 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: DoughtyOne

Somebody help me here—if this critically important climate change will lead to rising seas and flooding coastlines why do all the rich people buy houses on the shore...

Arghhh!


26 posted on 10/12/2017 11:35:11 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Mr_Moonlight

HAHAHAHA!


27 posted on 10/12/2017 11:36:07 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

90s are not atypical for August in that area

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/History.aspx?month=8


28 posted on 10/12/2017 11:36:28 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Vendome
Has it ever been this hot or hotter, cold or colder at times in the past?

In the last ice age, my home was literally under 500 ft. of glacier. Then I sold my SUV.

29 posted on 10/12/2017 11:36:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Mr_Moonlight

Maybe throwing the author in a volcano would appease earth mother gaia.


30 posted on 10/12/2017 11:38:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Gay State Conservative

—”Didn’t experience a single unexpected “challenge”...except in Johannesburg (thanks to their astounding level of violent crime).”

Yes, Crime-it-changes...


31 posted on 10/12/2017 11:42:45 AM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

We went driving by a grizzly bear in Glacier last August and I threw him a cookie.

He threw it back and yelled,

“How about a Popsicle Mr. Big Spender?”


32 posted on 10/12/2017 11:44:43 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lacrew

I spent 3 years in Rapid City in the early 80’s and as I remember it, summers were hot and winters were cold. We had a name for this phenomenon, weather.


33 posted on 10/12/2017 11:47:22 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer
In the last ice age, my home was literally under 500 ft. of glacier. Then I sold my SUV.

I saw a documentary not long ago which said that there's irrefutable evidence that Central Park (the one in Manhattan) was,not all that long ago,completely enveloped by a glacier that was something like 2,000 feet thick.

34 posted on 10/12/2017 11:48:36 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

Trump must have cut off a ridiculously insanely large money trough, as it seems these kinds of stories come out multiple time a day now nearly non stop while becoming louder and screechier every day


35 posted on 10/12/2017 11:53:02 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

I wonder if she HADN’T driven her RV from “muggy” Orlando if the temperatures might have been lower. Sounds to me like her RV and not “climate change” may be “affecting travel”.


36 posted on 10/12/2017 11:55:59 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Second Amendment. NOW more than ever!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

Every summer, when those Canadian high pressure zones bring beautiful weather to us in the upper Midwest, the Dakotas and Montana sit on the backside and get the southerly flow of winds.

Go up high and play in the snow, or stay in your air-conditioned room in beautiful Kalispell.


37 posted on 10/12/2017 11:57:12 AM PDT by budj (Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

If anything is affecting travel it’s the TSA turds and affirmative action employees!


38 posted on 10/12/2017 12:05:49 PM PDT by Harpotoo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

I was hoping to get the “Not this shit again,” guy.


39 posted on 10/12/2017 12:11:44 PM PDT by Luke21
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yep. Lying scum.


40 posted on 10/12/2017 12:11:53 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-56 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson