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RESORT OWNERS AFFECTED
“How Do You Ski if There Is No Snow?” asks the New York Times, warning that “resort owners and tour operators will be directly and strongly affected by climate change.” The question turns out to be largely hypothetical:
Resorts in both Europe and North America are opening ahead of schedule thanks to heavy snowfall ...
More than 80 cm of fresh snow in Austria’s Kitzbuhel has prompted a historically early opening date of Saturday November 10th, while Lech received 20 cm of the white stuff on Wednesday November 7th and is all set to open for ski breaks on December 1st.
It’s less a matter of “how do you ski” than “where would you like to ski”:
Heavy snowfalls over the past week — with more forecast for the next few days — mean that dozens of resorts are now enjoying their best start to the season in decades ...
Much of the French, Swiss and Italian Alps saw their first snow at the weekend. Verbier is reported to have half a metre of fresh powder snow. Resorts in Sweden and Germany have also opened.
Similar deal in Australia earlier this year. It’s probably warm snow.
(Via Jim R.)
“Speaking by telephone from the meeting, Mr. Lipman said that if the climate was going to change, ‘which we know it will, we’d all better adapt.’”
Sadly, the call was suddenly cut off as an avalanche roared down the mountain, burying Mr. Lipman under twenty feet of snow. A moment of silence, please, while we commemorate his “adaptation”.
I thought the point of “going skiing” was drinking in the lodge? People actually go outside?
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 11 14 at 10:22 AM • permalinkthey’re worried about skiing? selfish elitist bastards- what about the abominable snow children? Won’t someone please think about the abominable snow children?
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 11 14 at 10:41 AM • permalinkIf the MSM customarily blames warm conditions in a snow area on global warming, should they not also say that cold conditions in a snow area is evidence against global warming?
Posted by wronwright on 2007 11 14 at 12:43 PM • permalinkWarm snow? Naked ski chicks? I am so there!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 11 14 at 12:44 PM • permalinkIf the MSM customarily blames warm conditions in a snow area on global warming, should they not also say that cold conditions in a snow area is evidence against global warming?
Sigh. Wron, if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times: Observations congruent with global warming are evidence; observations in conflict with global warming are anomalies.
Responding to myself….
One year there was a Thanksgiving that involved lounging on the Sundeck in T-shirts and shorts, said Eddie Liebowitz, who has been in Aspen for 27 years and owns the Ski Service Center.
“We always get snow,” he said. “The only person skiing that day was Al Gore getting pulled by ski patrol in a snowmobile, but we proceeded to have 21 straight powder Saturdays.”
How can you report the ‘news’ if no one will bother reading you?
Posted by oldirishpig on 2007 11 14 at 02:21 PM • permalinkWhistler-Blackcomb have had snow since 30 Sep. The general snow level is now about 1000m.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 11 14 at 02:56 PM • permalinkIf memory serves, Upstate NY & New England had a huge snowfall-for-skiing winter last year. I distinctly remember lots of after-the-blizzard photos posted here on TimB’s site. I don’t remember what the gorebal warmening-distracting story in play was then, though.
(I guess it was, like hurricanes, the blizzards were GW-induced phenomena!)
Also, these pre-season snowfall speculations are similar to the pre-Christmas forecast regarding holiday retail sales. They are storylines invented to sell a perspective on a larger political theme.
The current storyline for Christmas retail sales in the US is that it’s going to suck—consistent with the “economy sucks” theme that the MSM has pounded so hard that nearly half of polled Americans “think” the economy is in a recession.
So the current angle on low snowfall is just one more storyline regarding goreball warmening.
But don’t worry, after a normal winter the MSM will be full of all those stories pointing out how long term weather forecasting is problematic—more art than science—just like they did after this past hurricane season turned out to be extremely mild, in contrast to the extremely active forecast.
Uh, don’t hold your breath.
No snow?
If we can steal a lake or two, I am sure we can steal a mountain full of snow and transport it to wherever it is required.
House and land prices have been booming at Australian ski resorts for the last 5 years. Must be a sign that people have little faith in there being snow around in 50 years.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 11 14 at 04:00 PM • permalinkNice try, Blair - but all the snow in Australia has already melted. Try and explain that!
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 11 14 at 04:39 PM • permalinkDon’t you just love it!
From the New York Times article, “At the end of the Davos conference, the World Tourism Organization advised travelers to take the climate into account and “where possible to reduce their carbon footprint.” But if Europeans stopped flying to Fiji or Antalya, poverty would worsen, tourism officials said.”
Yeah, sure ... because ‘we’ still need our trips to Bali now, don’t we? All 15,000 of us!
#27 Guba was named by Port Moresby met bureau following the name list for PNG cyclones.
The interesting thing is that early yesterday the Australian Bureau of Met was labelling it Cyclone Rebecca (next name on the list for an eastern Australian cyclone). Wouldn’t it be amusing if there was a bit of international argy bargy over cyclone naming rights behind the scene?
Met geek fight! LOL.
Australia is the worst
polluterproducer and emitter of greenhouse gas (CO2) per capita in the world. A study by Dr David Wheeler has shown that the two worst emitters of greenhouse gases are Bayswater and Eraring power plants.Um. Yes. Let’s just do without electricity, shall we?
I think there is a silver lining mentioned here.
any one have a ski lodge for sale I’ll buy it for 100. smackers since they will all be in receivership soon anyway.
Posted by hollingshead on 2007 11 14 at 05:36 PM • permalinkAll of which snowy weather will not be reported at all by the BBC.
Actually in BBC news, we have discovered why they did not report on the Wegman Report or the Congressional Hearings into the Hockey Stick:
“Nature’s refusal to publish a re-analysis by Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick of the famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) “hockey stick” graph has been so well documented elsewhere, not least in hearings instigated by US congressmen, that there is really nothing new to say.”
In other words, because the Congressional Hearings were so well reported elsewhere, the BBC couldn’t be arsed reporting it at all.
It must be the new excuse for censorship: Non-reporting of important events due to apathy.
Hmph! Please send any surplus snow to Los Angeles. Hubby and I haven’t gone skiing (clothed or otherwise) in yonks, and we’d like to do it again before we reach hip-breaking age, if you please, Mr. Gore? :angry:
Posted by Mary in LA on 2007 11 14 at 07:28 PM • permalinkDisproven over clean coal, the CCC’s Dr KKK now tries to diss nuclear power.
Have they not heard that Dear Leader Al is investing in nuke power, sheesh, always behind the times in the antipodes ...
Awaiting another geek egg-on-face retraction ...
Yeah, but there could have been no snow.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 11 14 at 09:06 PM • permalinkGet with it team:
Less snow = global warming;
More snow = global warming;
Late snow = global warming; and
Early snow = global warming.Same applies to rain, hail, sunshine, earthquakes, cyclones, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, frogs, polar bears, moose, Tasmanian devils, Norwegian blue parrots, giant moa - whatever.
#18 Mio Cid,
I thought for a minute Puce had turned up again. Treacher really needs to find out what happened to him.Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 11 15 at 01:21 AM • permalinkKillington (Vermont) is opening this weekend with 4 lifts. They have fresh snow. We may get some way down south here in Massachusetts this weekend.
We only got rid of the glaciers 10,000 years ago. Does Algore really miss them that much? He should think a bit before arranging to have reliable Democrat states like Massachusetts, New York, and Minnesota under a half-mile of ice.
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Skiing in warm snow is way more fun than that cold stuff. ‘Specially naked!