#artificialsnow at 25 degrees C (80 degrees F) is "the magic bullet that everyone needs"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/28/snow-machines-ski-resorts-climate-change/
#climatecrisis

"#ArtificialSnow is now used across all the major ski resorts and a growing number of smaller ones. … While its use is expected to expand in future, obstacles remain: cost, water availability and the emissions from the energy it requires. … Some ski areas will simply close."
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RT @timgrecco
"The world is on track for at least a 2.4C rise, enough to wipe out most of the winter season. He also notes that if such extreme warming came to p…
https://twitter.com/timgrecco/status/1612516583775035395

Do you #ski? The political economy of #snow, slopes and #skiing
#Skiing is, in short, becoming more, not less exclusive
the business logic is not so much one of building moats, but of buying #mountains
Since 2000 none of the winter Olympics would have been possible without #artificialsnow and #snowfarming
That innocent seasonal question, “do you ski?”, does indeed carry a lot of weight https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-180-do-you-ski-the-political #monopoly #globalwarming #climatechange #snowmaking