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 ...
Your forecast is. It will be Dark tonight turning light by morning.
Unadventurous adventurers blame the weather for spoiling their adventure?
Better stay inside from now on.
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?”
-stay home
-kill yourself
-send more tax dollars to the UN
The only time it was hotter was when they were burning witches at the stake....literally....
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!
HAHAHAHA!
In the last ice age, my home was literally under 500 ft. of glacier. Then I sold my SUV.
Maybe throwing the author in a volcano would appease earth mother gaia.
—”Didn’t experience a single unexpected “challenge”...except in Johannesburg (thanks to their astounding level of violent crime).”
Yes, Crime-it-changes...
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?”
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.
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.
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
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”.
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.
If anything is affecting travel it’s the TSA turds and affirmative action employees!
I was hoping to get the “Not this shit again,” guy.
Yep. Lying scum.
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