With global warming at its highest yet, will there be any snow at all in 75 years? My home mountain didn't even open last season and that's when I really saw how much global warming effects our sport. I hope something is changed soon because i want to ski when I'm 70 years old.
Oct 30 2014 9:21PM
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Oct 30 2014 9:27PM
Lyric.Sylvani want to ski when I'm 70 years old.
Are you -5 right now?
I thought global warming meant extreme weather trends. As in hotter summers and colder winters. And bigger storms if we're lucky! Winter storms with huge pow dumps that is, I suppose the hurricanes and tsunamis will be more devastating and tragic than awesome.
Oct 30 2014 9:29PM
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Oct 31 2014 2:40AM
Oct 31 2014 9:16AM
penutbutrnjellyAre you -5 right now?I thought global warming meant extreme weather trends. As in hotter summers and colder winters. And bigger storms if we're lucky! Winter storms with huge pow dumps that is, I suppose the hurricanes and tsunamis will be more devastating and tragic than awesome.
That's exactly what's going on here in NY right now. We have really cold winters with massive snow dumps and pretty hot summers. last winter we had over 3 "ice days" off of school because temps got down to -25 and below. Free ski days for us though. And from what i know from our surrounding states, the same thing is happening. just more extreme weather.
Oct 31 2014 9:23AM
Oct 31 2014 9:56AM
jibberjabber333That's exactly what's going on here in NY right now. We have really cold winters with massive snow dumps and pretty hot summers. last winter we had over 3 "ice days" off of school because temps got down to -25 and below. Free ski days for us though. And from what i know from our surrounding states, the same thing is happening. just more extreme weather.
They have stopped calling it 'global warming' now because there hasn't actually been universal warming, so it is now called 'climate change', which jibberjabber explained correctly. Their predictions say that we will just get a bunch of extreme weather- blizzards and hurricanes, droughts and floods.
If you look at global temperatures, the trend is fairly flat- some areas of the world have been warmer lately and some cooler. It will be interesting to see how the climate speculation plays out over the next few decades. Keep in mind that Al Gore said the Arctic was going to be completely ice free in 2009, which was wrong, and the Antarctica ice shelf extended the furthest ever this past winter.
Personally, and I know a lot of people won't agree with me on this (which is fine), I think that a lot of this 'climate change' hysteria is a lot of media induced fear. Many early predictions have been incorrect so far, which is why the changed the name from warming to climate change. I don't think our historical weather data from the early 1900s is that accurate and our current technology isn't advanced enough to predict climate changes.
Also keep in mind that the planet has historically gone through a lot of different temperature changes. We have had multiple ice ages and other periods where the entire planet was pretty much a rain forest. I don't think there is going to be too much of a climate change any time soon and Earth will go through it's phases just like it always has.
Oct 31 2014 1:06PM
Oct 31 2014 7:14PM
kshaughnThey have stopped calling it 'global warming' now because there hasn't actually been universal warming, so it is now called 'climate change', which jibberjabber explained correctly. Their predictions say that we will just get a bunch of extreme weather- blizzards and hurricanes, droughts and floods.If you look at global temperatures, the trend is fairly flat- some areas of the world have been warmer lately and some cooler. It will be interesting to see how the climate speculation plays out over the next few decades. Keep in mind that Al Gore said the Arctic was going to be completely ice free in 2009, which was wrong, and the Antarctica ice shelf extended the furthest ever this past winter.
Personally, and I know a lot of people won't agree with me on this (which is fine), I think that a lot of this 'climate change' hysteria is a lot of media induced fear. Many early predictions have been incorrect so far, which is why the changed the name from warming to climate change. I don't think our historical weather data from the early 1900s is that accurate and our current technology isn't advanced enough to predict climate changes.
Also keep in mind that the planet has historically gone through a lot of different temperature changes. We have had multiple ice ages and other periods where the entire planet was pretty much a rain forest. I don't think there is going to be too much of a climate change any time soon and Earth will go through it's phases just like it always has.
Climate change has been dramatized, but we do need to cut down on carbon emissions. It is a big problem and no doubt humans have effected climate in the last 20 years.
Oct 31 2014 8:44PM
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Nov 1 2014 9:28PM
the fact that global warming is going to make everything really hot is simply a myth. First off its climate change, not warming per say. Second, it doesn't mean hot summers cold winters or cold summers hot winters it just means more extreme weather phenomena at a higher frequency. Basically that means we could have winters here in NE where we get Colorado level snow and colorado gets rain. Or the other way around. Or where Arizona gets downpours in the summer and Seattle gets a drought. It also means we could have a huge snow storm that dumps 4 feet over 2 days in NE but then 2 weeks later it's 40 degrees and raining (example: last year) . It could also mean that one year New Hampshire could have record shattering snowfall yet the very next year have below average snowfall. Or, New England gets a hurricane in the middle of march and florida gets ice storms. Climate change does not mean the end of winter as we know it, it simply means more drastic weather shifts in a higher frequency within a localized area.
Nov 1 2014 9:38PM
Nov 1 2014 9:52PM
ITT: People who don't know what they're talking about
It's not "Climate change", it's warming - period. If 20% of places have colder winters, and 80% have warmer winters, that doesn't mean the temperature is "even". While it does mean more dramatic extremes, the net movement is towards warmer. Just because one winter in one area was colder than every winter in the past ten years, doesn't mean it's suddenly getting colder. Maybe in the short term it did, but that means nothing for the long term. It could mean that high altitude air currents were disrupted by this increase in temperature, bringing down colder air from the poles. Now it's warmer at said pole, melting ice, reflecting less heat, etc. etc.
Nov 1 2014 11:28PM
Nov 1 2014 11:42PM
MiomoITT: People who don't know what they're talking aboutIt's not "Climate change", it's warming - period. If 20% of places have colder winters, and 80% have warmer winters, that doesn't mean the temperature is "even". While it does mean more dramatic extremes, the net movement is towards warmer. Just because one winter in one area was colder than every winter in the past ten years, doesn't mean it's suddenly getting colder. Maybe in the short term it did, but that means nothing for the long term. It could mean that high altitude air currents were disrupted by this increase in temperature, bringing down colder air from the poles. Now it's warmer at said pole, melting ice, reflecting less heat, etc. etc.
It's surprising how mis-informed so many people in this thread are. Your response is the only one that is close to where the scientific community stands at the moment (maybe someone else hit some points as well, i just skimmed through most the replies).
A lot of these process are positive feedback loops. Take the ice sheets melting for example... Currently the Ice reflect a large percent of the energy away from the earth. As more ice melts, less energy is reflected, which in turn causes temps to rise locally, which in turn melt more ice.
Of course there are far too many variables to know whats actually going to happen. All of the best models do point more or less in the same direction though.
A more interesting question is what will we be eating and breathing in 75 years. That's a long time and "modern" humans have managed to fuck up so much in an astoundingly short period...
Its really quite impressive.
Nov 2 2014 7:39AM
Nov 2 2014 10:47AM
Dr.Prof.JibberWhere do you ski? My resort had the most snow ever since I've been alive and we broke the record for most snow recorded in the past 100 years.
Even a 100 year period of recording the earth's climate is such a small period of time on the grand scale of things. One year of record snowfall out of 4 billion means absolutely nothing. The earth has been warming since the last ice age...eventually the earth will probably go back into an ice age at some point
Nov 2 2014 1:38PM
KravtZEven a 100 year period of recording the earth's climate is such a small period of time on the grand scale of things. One year of record snowfall out of 4 billion means absolutely nothing. The earth has been warming since the last ice age...eventually the earth will probably go back into an ice age at some point
An ice age is a period of time when there is permanent ice on earth's surface, e.g. the poles. Believe it or not, we're in an ice age right now. We're coming out of one, and very rapidly - unnaturally so.
Nov 2 2014 6:17PM
MiomoAn ice age is a period of time when there is permanent ice on earth's surface, e.g. the poles. Believe it or not, we're in an ice age right now. We're coming out of one, and very rapidly - unnaturally so.
Technically we aren't in an ice age right. By definition, and ice age is a period of time where there is an expansion of continental and polar ice sheets. An ice age would mean that there is a permanent ice sheet that would reach as far as southern Canada and northern USA, which obviously isn't the case. We are currently in between glacial periods since coming out of the little ice age.