End of traditional ski holiday by 2030? Colorado sees opportunity

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Halifax General Insurance report predicts end of traditional ski holiday by 2030

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Every ski resort executive in Colorado has been issued with a Hummer, to help speed up this process Very Happy

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This has been well documented.

As the world melts, resorts will go higher.

Parts of France, Colorado, Eurasia and the Himalayas will be sitting pretty.

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And the anomalies, that continue to get dumped on regardless of altitude or latitude.

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Methinks I'll be moving to Val T then.....

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tequilaslammer, No - their skiing isn't high enough! The town is high, but not the top of the skiing! Laughing

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so they are moaning about emissions effing up their snow but looking forward to lots of europeans flocking to their resorts.. walking presumably..

After all it is free

I wonder. We will see if skiing falls off altogether, I am somewhat of a troll in this. Seasonal cycles have something to do with it.

Of course I could be wrong, we will see. Puzzled

Roy Hockley, it wont.. 2 years ago it was the end of the world in this country because of drought.. mm i bet all those gardeners who switched to a 'low water' garden are wondering why they ever listened to the 'experts'

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Lets all pray for an ice age instead then

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tequilaslammer, One site's view on expanding glaciers.

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achilles, just read a few things on that site. It's always fun to see how people like to twist things just to sell their book (which is all that site is about). Most of the links on the site are to itself, not external sources. Where it quotes externals, well, here's an example...

Wear The Fox Hat, Could be. However, my son was told, on a visit to New Zealand a few years back that the Franz Josef glacier in New Zealand was expanding - and I recently saw that corroborated in an academic source (bit busy to track that down right now). There was also a comment that the expansion was a blip. But it would appear, that, for whatever reason, at least that glacier is expanding.

You know it makes sense.

achilles, yes, certainly are some glaciers that are expanding (NZ is a good example). And some that aren't.

That website also refers to the BBC ficitonal work "The Big Chill" as being a documentary (i.e. factual), and therefore true. It talks about Greenlands glaciers moving faster for 2 years compared to the previous 2 as proof that climate change is a fraud.
And as I say, most of the links in it are just internal, all there to sell a book.
In fact, if you go to one of the pages, all they list are any significant daily rainfalls or snowfalls - and these are "proof" that climate change isn't happening!

Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

Who knows what is happening with global warming. I certainly do not subscribe to the Private Fraser"we're all doomed" theory. Trusting the source is the big thing here and I am swaying to trusting neither side.

The politicians are tied into this way too much and they are fiting this to whatever agenda they have rather than focusing on independant unbiased research. If it is such a threat why are we not throwing money at alternative fuel and power generation. Its all lip service at the moment.

I read somwhere in the past that due to global warming there will be more water content in the atmosphere and therfor higher winter snow falls so maybe mother nature might just sort it out on her own. That piece may or may not have been sponsered by the Avimore tourist baord and association of estate agents though.

Take the spin out of it, give me decent research and I will make my mind up

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brian, those are very sensible additions, except, perhaps (and it pains me to say it) for "Schination Nummer Eins", Austria. Although I am very impressed at how Hintertux has kept its terrain open, the cancellation of the Solden WC GS last October showed the vulnerability of Austria's glaciers.
Much of Austria's skiing is low-altitude. OK, as long as the winter brings cold air from the north-east, as it did a couple of winters ago. But sadly quite vulnerable to mild spells from the west.

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Evrything over 2000m I skied last year was great snow from late Jan to early Mar and that was in what was deemed by many as a poor season.
2000m has long been the height that skiing starts so it is really the low alpine villages that may suffer.

Punters will have to be a bit more knowledgable and picky. TO's will get a caning as more people go DIY and last minute

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I don't know how well Korea fits most resorts in South Korea I believe get small amounts of natural snow and relies on a lot of man made though it is cold enough to make it.

How Hokkaido will change with climate change is anyones guess. I met a Japanese woman skiing who told me that as a child on the main Island all the houses where she lived had doors on the first floor for winter because the snow was so deep they could not get out of the ground floor and now they hardly get any. She was only about 40 and lived on the main Island.

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Yep, talking about the alpes. but if I went elsewhere I'd bone up on local height variations.

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