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Meltdown: how climate change will affect skiing
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from the new freeskier, by patrick Crawford
this saddens me mucho:
temp increase observed in upper colorado river basin === +2.1 degree F last 1/2 century
predicted projected decrease of showpack by 2070 in colorado === -30%
temp increase 2070 === +3.6 F
where will our sons go? not so much daughters rofl.
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goddamn rite where will our sons go. because if i have a daughter ill flip. i know how many slimy bastards there are out there like me watin to take her sweet lill cherry.
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haha you bastard
yea if i had a daugher, i'd tottally neglect her though, i'm sorry
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that was not that great of an article, it was based off of very unreliable sources and should have been title how climate change might affect skiing
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little whores, all they want is makeup and ponys.
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and lulu lemon pants. fuck those pants look nice, but ill be damned if my girl is ever wearing a pair, seriously tho, nobel prize to the man that invented those.
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yeah. 4 degree increase since 1949. so. 100 degree increase since the ice age.
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when do you think the next ice age will come, like day after tommorrow, i can't wait for the day, hopefully our slutty daughters die, seriously
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All of the information they are using is from data collected over the last 30-40 years. So there is really no way they can make an accurate prediction.
I know what I am talking about. Last week I was up at the North Pole talking to Santa Cluase. He was telling me that we were to expect a +50 degrees over the next four years. He said that after this year, it won't snow in the U.S. for another 80 years. So we should all be glad that we don't have to chopp any more fire wood. By the way, I dont have a clue what I am talking about.
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meh none of us will be skiing then most likely
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but if it warms up, think of all the extra evaporation that would happen, the last few years before we cant get any more snow would have redoncolously good snow
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half the scientists studying global warming think it will make north america colder. course, huge climate change probably wont happen for a couple thousand years.
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no they think it will warm NA and cool northern Europe due to ocean current chnages. i am moving to sweden. Anyways i think it is quite obvious to all of us that global warming is a reality, i can remeber my childhood when half the days the cars would be covered in snow, and my house would be covered too, couldn't even see out of the first floor windows. NOW we have not even had more than 1 ft of snow for the past 3 years. its fucking retarted.
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Climate change is a fast reality. If youve been around france for a long time snow has lessoned in the last 50 years like crazy
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global warming doesnt take place over a childhood
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Well I read an article in Powder mag a couple months back and a meteorologist says"we are a long way with doing away with winter" meaning winter will be fine untill we die atleast!!!
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yup, in the last 10 years too. No good seasons over there anymore
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so don't roll in escalades, waste energy, take the bus, bike, dont use styrofoam cups, etc... So many things we could all do to slow it down, but everybody would have to go at it.
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Yes, climate change does not happen overnight, but 1 degree changes can have huger impacts in worsening effects of warming ocean currents, causeing more common tropical winds, decreased snowfall, increased rain, sped up glacial erosion.
It's effects increase geometrically. I am moving to the interior.
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Perfect example, melting ice caps increases ocean currents moving south from the north pacific, this casues more southeasterly winds onto the northwest of USA and southwest of Canada, Thus the warmer seasons and less skiing days. As well as more tropical storms.
Yes there has been many cold snaps, but that is from northwestery arcitic storms causing temporary temperature drops.
But there is still a gradually increasing rate of warming
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antarctica and the arctic dont actually get THAT much snow, it is mostly hard packed ice sucka
move to alaska
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thats horse shit.........i have been to the arctic......i live near close to the arctic circle......there is snow......just like anywhere else. We are the only hill in our region with all nautral snow..........and a tow rope.
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The northern parts of the arctic and the tundra barely get any snow jerkwad.
Not all of it.
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yea......... to get things straight day after tommorrow is horribly in-accurate. There are different aspects which are 100 percent true but it has huge gaps in logic and reality.if a large freshwater ice chunk fell into the ocean it waould change the salinity of the ocean a slightly change some ocean currents possibly damping the guld stream that bring warm water up the east coast. that they said, and is true. But this would simply create less evaporation and less storms for a year or so, not a huge cyclone that pulls cold air down from the upper atmosphere and freezes everything, besides when u bring air down from up high it warms up because there is more pressure upon it. to answer ur question the next major ice age has already begun. only we arent feeling it at all because of the off set of global warming. many people beleive in fact that if we werent going into an ice age right now the global average temp could be much higher (15-30F higher) its liekly we wont feel much global warming at all because as we shit on out planet more and more with greenhouse gases our planet goes deeper and deeper into an ice age, but in 5-10k years when we start to come out of the ice age itll get real warm real quick. alot of this is speculation and theories about what could and is very likely to happen nothing in this subject is fact, we wont notice any difference in snowfall for the most part, in fact more then 50 percent of ski areas will prob get more snow every year because the temps are warmer therefor more evaporation therfor more storms and accumulation coastal resorts may get less snow and more rain because they are always right around the 32f mark temp wise, thats my 2 cents
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the north gets snow as long as it has a source of humidity, the north pole get alot of snow, maybe not as much as colorado or tahoe because everything is frozen up there but they still get snow especially in the early and late winter. the south pole gets less because again everything is frozen so there isnt alot of humidity to muster up a big dump but they still get snow. and weather patterns move weather around the globe so they dont really impact the extreme south or extreme north, so yes its not a snowy deep wonderland there but they do get snow
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Who cares what the temps will be in 70
years most of us will be dead.
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It is called humanity, altruism, benefication, anything ASIDE from ethical egoism.
This is the attitudes that help pollution accords not be signed, countries to allow cfcs and styrofoam to still be used.
Well economics and unfair developement constraints go in account to. If we wish to disuss this too, we can.
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This is the first global warming thread in which most aren't in denial, thank god.
Antarctica is the dryest continent on earth, and might even be the dryest desert. They don't get much snow.
Most scientists agree global warming would increase precipitation in many areas. Thus, higher elevations could see more snow, which could be a good thing temporarily.
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hey, that's an east coast skier's paradise then!
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dude none of us will be able to ski in 2070
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1 degree can be the differance of rain and snow, especially in New York, or even anywhere
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we should write tons of letters to the government about global warming
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On this matter, IT WAS ACTUALLY 0 CELCIUS ON THE LOCAL HILLS LAST NIGHT
that is 32 F for those who dont know
way too hot for my snow pants
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