Guardian - The US ski industry has lost more than $5bn over the past two decades due to human-caused global heating, the new research has calculated, due to the increasingly sparse nature of snowfall on mountain ranges. Previous studies have shown that in many locations precipitation is now coming in the form of rain, rather than snow, due to warming temperatures. This situation, the new study states, has shortened the average ski season in the US by five to seven days over the past half century, costing the industry an average of $252m a year from lost revenue and the rising cost of making snow via machines.
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I told people in the winter sports business in Maine in the mid 1990's that their business model was going to lead to disaster. Driving large vehicles hundreds of miles to do winter sports was definitely going to contribute to the climate catastrophe and all it would take for catastrophe for thier businesses was an increase from 1 bad snow year a decade to three. I am guessing they are already there as the $5 Billion loses shows. In the 1990s they looked at me like I had two heads, I hope the businesses are more willing to listen nowe and change how they operate. We need mass transit or those businesses go away and with it many rural economies are devastated.
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