“This is more than ‘warming,’” said Fabrice Dumaine, 52, who was waxing a pair of skis in the rental shop he operates, near a vending machine that sells cheese for raclette, a traditional après-ski meal. “It’s usually minus-5 degrees [23 degrees Fahrenheit] here at this time, and now it’s 15 degrees [59 degrees Fahrenheit]. Even some summers are colder.”“What’s scary,” he said, “is the uncertainty.
While artificial snow kept at least some of the slopes open in Les Gets last week, the runs were an unsatisfying experience for many. “Everyone is at the same bit of snow, and it’s really bad snow,” said Marius van Hasselt, 21, a Dutch visitor. Some of his friends headed home early. In the Alps, climate activists warn that the more frequent use of snow cannons will aggravate drought. Water is lost in the artificial snow-making process, as a result of evaporation, wind drift and other influences. And France, where some reservoirs dried up last summer, can’t afford to have that water taken out of natural circulation, activists say.
“In the minds of people, it’s for the rich, we use water, we use energy. We’ve used cement mixers, we’ve built a lot. So, for them, we’re wrong about everything,” he said, sipping coffee in a small mountain cabin on the peak above his village, overlooking western Europe’s highest mountain, Mont Blanc, where snow is still plentiful.their use of polluting
Go to Steamboat Springs Colorado, where they will have a 400 inch season, 2nd time in 36 years. NormalVariation
Sometimes you get a lot of snow, sometimes not so much. This is normal. California got record snowfall this year. Weather ebbs and flows. Stop being so alarmist.
Yeah and another warm dry winter in California!!! Oh wait…
turn the ac on
Conspiracy theory. Blaming everything on climate change is the left's version of the right's 'it must be the vax' blame for all sudden deaths.
Por eso ya no tenes las torres yanke sucio 🤣🤣 9/11 ✈️✈️🏨🏨
Lol some nerve writing this when California ski resorts are being buried in snow.
Because Central Asia took all the snow ✌️
Global warming effect. The earth is on its death bed.
Now do Tahoe
Don't panic,it's fine now, been dumping all week and much more forecast next week.
Now do Colorado.
gtconway3d Europe’s snowless ski resorts preview winter in a warming world
DanRodricks There is a 420 inch base at mammoth mountain in CA
gtconway3d Better cancel your viking river cruise
gtconway3d Another Republican blunder...denying a climate change for their greed sake...Sad for all those hardworking Americans & their personal losses.
gtconway3d No snow in toronto either in January
A little Cherry Picking WaPo?
Hell , just buy more electric cars that’ll fix it , seriously so it’s not as cold in some parts of the world,they’ll probably have record snow next winter, it’s just climate cycles
Now do California and Rockies ski slopes in a warming world…. Propaganda not news.
Park City, Utah is 200% on its annual snowfall already. It’s almost like…weather varies across the world.
Countries like Maldives have been shouting about global warming for decades now because it's an existential threat to them... But disappearing ski slopes is the last straw for Western countries?
Fake news…
BS, Alaska just has record snowfalls the last 6 weeks. Try again.
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