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What is the future of snow in America? Can you imagine a world without snow? You might not have to imagine it. Snow might be non-existant in 75 years from now.
Powder Magazine will publish this powerful story in its next issue. This video is a look into what Powder is about to reveal to us all. It appears that Deep the Book, a book about climate change and snow, is their guide.
“The planet has warmed 0.8C since the industrial revolution. So that’s the big picture. In the Northern Hemisphere, in the last 50 years, we’ve lost a million squaw miles of spring snowpack.” – Auden Schendler, vice president of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company
Winter warming has tripled in the USA since 1970.
Rocky Mountain spring snowpack is down 20%
97% of scientists say humans are changing the environment.
By 2100 the world will warm another 7-11degrees Fahrenheit.
Western USA snowpack could decrease by 25-100%.
“Skiing is in jeopardy. If climatologists are right, we are looking at the end of the sport as we know it in 75 years. Features Editor Porter Fox takes a road trip to the heart of ski town America to find out, what now? Watch this video to accompany the story in ourSeptember issue.” – Powder Magazine
something tells me that with the irradiation from unmaintained nuclear facilities, the complete lack of drinkable water, the desertification of agricultural areas, totalitarianism everywhere etc etc etc the world’s citizens will be scratching to live from day to day rather than thinking of shredding mont blanc
It’s real, and we know it. Unfortunately, we are all humans and humans don’t respond to anything until it’s actually happened. We’re gonna have to wait until the disasters hit, then we’ll start trying to fix it.
Within a lifetime things have changed this much. Imagine what will happen in the next lifetime.
Kudos to Powder for taking this on. It needed to be said.