Two US gold medalist skiers, Ted Ligety and Julia Mancuso, have made statements about global warming’s impact on skiing for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Both are calling for action now to stop global warming....Ligety’s statement included: “With the start of the 2007 ski season, it’s never been clearer that the sport I love is at risk. Global warming has made skiing conditions progressively worse – the seasons are getting shorter and there seems to be less snow on the slopes. Without immediate action to halt global warming we could lose the sport as we know it all together….”
Mancuso’s: “Global warming is wreaking havoc on skiing – it’s unbelievable how many race cancellations there have been due to mild temperatures. According to the City of Aspen, in Colorado alone average temperatures have increased by three degrees Fahrenheit in the last 25 years, and the amount of snow has decreased by 16 percent. If this trend continues, many of the slopes we love could be bare in the near future and scientists agree that man-made carbon emissions will be the cause…”
For more:
http://worldwildlife.org/ski/
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