No snow for Christmas........

[ABikerSailor]

Seems like the skiing season in Switzerland is not gonna happen this year.......

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Klosters. Everywhere you go the festive season is evident. Fairy lights twinkle in the trees that hug the Swiss ski resort's main shopping street, Bahnhofstrasse. Illuminated Santas can be spied abseiling down the front of the chalets nestling at the foot of the glowering mountains. Wickerwork reindeer graze in shop windows.

And yet something is missing: snow. The only white stuff to be found in the town is of the spray-on variety. Snow shovels and sledges stand idly outside hardware stores waiting forlornly for customers, like the last turkeys in the shop. Snowgear outlets are offering 30% off snowshoes.

"I was five the last time we had a start to a season like this," said Carina, a 31-year-old shopkeeper.

The Ski Club of Great Britain is also struggling for context. "This is an exceptional start to the season," said Vicky Norman, its PR manager. "In our snow records [which stretch back 18 seasons] we cannot see another season when there has been such a mild and dry start."

Up high, the snow cannons are spewing out fake snow, but lower down it melts too quickly to make the artificial option viable. Only two of the resort's five mountains have managed to open and they offer just a few runs. It is a far cry from last year, when Klosters opened for business on 5 November.

In Klosters, three weeks before Christmas, only one thing is missing

Now, considering the record heat in the Midwest this summer, no snow in Switzerland this winter, and oh yeah.......there is now a passage from one side of the North Pole to another side of the North Pole, and is being looked at as a possible shipping lane.

Still think global climate change is a myth?

 

[peach174]

Seems like the skiing season in Switzerland is not gonna happen this year.......

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Klosters. Everywhere you go the festive season is evident. Fairy lights twinkle in the trees that hug the Swiss ski resort's main shopping street, Bahnhofstrasse. Illuminated Santas can be spied abseiling down the front of the chalets nestling at the foot of the glowering mountains. Wickerwork reindeer graze in shop windows.

And yet something is missing: snow. The only white stuff to be found in the town is of the spray-on variety. Snow shovels and sledges stand idly outside hardware stores waiting forlornly for customers, like the last turkeys in the shop. Snowgear outlets are offering 30% off snowshoes.

"I was five the last time we had a start to a season like this," said Carina, a 31-year-old shopkeeper.

The Ski Club of Great Britain is also struggling for context. "This is an exceptional start to the season," said Vicky Norman, its PR manager. "In our snow records [which stretch back 18 seasons] we cannot see another season when there has been such a mild and dry start."

Up high, the snow cannons are spewing out fake snow, but lower down it melts too quickly to make the artificial option viable. Only two of the resort's five mountains have managed to open and they offer just a few runs. It is a far cry from last year, when Klosters opened for business on 5 November.

In Klosters, three weeks before Christmas, only one thing is missing

Now, considering the record heat in the Midwest this summer, no snow in Switzerland this winter, and oh yeah.......there is now a passage from one side of the North Pole to another side of the North Pole, and is being looked at as a possible shipping lane.

Still think global climate change is a myth?

The majority has never said that climate change is a myth.
The controversy is over whether it's man made or natural.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Seen what Beijing looks like lately? You can't even see one of those monolithic apartment buildings from a mile away. It looks like a mirage.

China cleaned up their air for the Olympics, now it's just as bad if not worse.