AMERICA YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED
U.S. News & World Report: Global Warming Ruining Ski
Season!
by Robert Wilde 15 Feb 2014, 5:44
PM PDT
Some officials claim that due to
global warming, ski towns may be going the way of the Dodo. “It’s the single
greatest threat to our local economy,” says Steven Skadron, mayor of Aspen, CO.
In the midst of this particularly brutal winter and without a sense of irony U.S. News & World Report gave this
report lead-story billing at their website Saturday afternoon.
And Skadron's not alone in
positing that such towns as Aspen, Vail, and Lake Tahoe, traditionally prosperous ski resorts
suffering from low snowfall this year, may become extinct. Terry Root, senior
fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, is all in on the
“inconvenient truth”: “There’s going to be good years and there’s going to be
god-awful years. The globe is warming so rapidly, and variability is increasing
so much – both of those things together, I’m glad I don’t have stock in ski
areas.”
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, New York City's Central Park
broke a 118-year record, with the temperature descending to four degrees. Monday's
subzero temperatures shattered record lows in Chicago, dropping to minus 16,
and in Fort Wayne, IN the mercury fell to 13 below. Oklahoma
and Texas,
with wind chills across the region at 40 below and colder, set a few cold
records as well.
What do these two seemingly
disparate climate trends have in common? Well, according the EPA and NASA, they are both caused by global
warming.
However, one should consider that
the history of California
is closely tied to the history of droughts and changing snowfall patterns
varying from year to year. According to Scott Stine, a professor of geography
and environmental studies at Cal
State East
Bay: "We're living
in a dream world. The longest droughts of the 20th century in which
Californians think of as severe, occurred from 1987 to 1992 and from 1928 to
1934.” Both, Stine said, are minor compared to the ancient droughts of 850 to
1090 and 1140 to 1320.
Through studies of tree rings,
sediment, and other natural evidence, researchers assert that California has had multiple droughts that
lasted 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years. The mere three-year
duration of the current dry spell doesn’t come close to California’s driest periods.
Stine, who has spent decades
studying tree stumps in Mono Lake, Tenaya
Lake, the Walker
River, and other parts of the Sierra Nevada, said that the past century has been among
the wettest of the last 7,000 years. ”The two most severe mega-droughts make
the Dust Bowl of the 1930s look tame: a 240-year-long drought that started in
850 and, 50 years after the conclusion of that one, another that stretched at
least 180 years,” according to the professor.
Andy Wirth, president and CEO of
Squaw Valley Ski Holdings, which runs Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows resorts
in California,
reminds Californians that Squaw’s 2010-2011 season saw more than 800 inches of
snow and skiing through the Fourth of July. “Really, what’s at hand for the
companies that operate in ski towns, whether you’re a restaurant or a ski
resort, is you have to change your operating platform to be able to adjust to
the more variable snow conditions.”
Aspen
Henry
Crown and Company is the owner of the Aspen
Skiing Company.
Note: James S.
Crown is the president of Henry
Crown and Company, a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Lester Crown
is the chairman for Henry Crown and
Company, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a
lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Mortimer B.
Zuckerman was a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is
the chairman & editor-in-chief for the U.S.
News & World Report.
David
Gergen is the editor-at-large for the U.S.
News & World Report, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
William
A. Nitze is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was
the assistant administrator for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), the Climate Reality Project,
and the Center for American Progress.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, a supporter
for the Center for American Progress,
and is a board member for the International
Crisis Group.
Samantha
Power was a board member for the International
Crisis Group, a correspondent for the U.S.
News & World Report, and is the United
Nations U.S. ambassador for the Barack
Obama administration.
Lee
M. Thomas was a director at the Climate
Reality Project, and an administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Albert
A. Gore Jr. is the chairman for the Climate
Reality Project, a friend of Orin S.
Kramer, and a director at Apple Inc.
Orin
S. Kramer is a friend of Albert A.
Gore Jr., a director at the Climate
Reality Project, and was an administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Carol M. Browner
was a director at the Climate Reality
Project, an administrator for the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the energy czar for the Barack Obama administration, and is a senior
fellow, director for the Center for
American Progress.
Apple
Inc. was a funder for the Center for
American Progress.
David
C. Nagel was the head of human factors research for Apple Inc., and the head of human factors research for the NASA Ames Research Center.
Albert
A. Gore Jr. is a director at Apple
Inc., the chairman for the Climate
Reality Project, and a friend of Orin
S. Kramer.
Orin
S. Kramer is a friend of Albert A.
Gore Jr., a director at the Climate
Reality Project, and was an administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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