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Aspen in Colorado, which has taken some of the bolder environmental initiatives among US ski resorts, has been given a worrying prediction about its rate of climate change.
Dr. Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, told a conference at the University of Colorado that Aspen may face a 2 degree C rise in average temperatures over the next century, compared with 0.5C for America in general.
Aspen's skiing, snowpack, ecosystem and economy are threatened by global warming, he said. He also told his audience that it is an "unambiguous fact" that humans are largely to blame.
This report from Aspen Daily News.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I think the key word is "may". In this country, there seems not be agreement whether we'll freeze to death in winter or die of heat exhaustion in summer (I'm sure it won't be long before some environmentalist claims both), so I'm sceptical of claims to know what climate change will mean to particular locales.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I agree. There is still no clear long term evidence to support the global warming arguments because accurate detailed record keeping only goes back about 50-100 years. How can we hope to make accurate predictions about the future with so little data to go on?
The fact that not a single data model or prediction that has been made so far has been accurate adds more fossil fuel to the fires. 
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I just read a book "state of fear, by Michael Crichton", despite being fiction it references real data. It lists many references disputing global warming, showing a cooling down in some long term stats and also ice thickening at one of the poles (can't remember which one!)
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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gregh, the North Pole ice should thicken due to climate change based on most predictions, and the south will shrink. This hinges on the Gulf Stream weakening, or being turned off, which, strangely enough, may well happen because the North Pole is currently melting faster than expected.
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Thank you for that information, Your Excellency.
What influence will these phenomena have on Aspen?
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David Goldsmith, it will make it more difficult for me to fly there.
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ken_1969, glacial ice, fossils, etc. can keep pretty good records of what world climate was like well beyond 50-100 years ago. To say that we can't predict the exact effects of climate change caused by human influenced increases in greenhouse gases is true, but to insinuate that there won't be an effect is naive.
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gregh, That book is rather selective in the facts it references.
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