Save the Snow! Ski Resorts Face An Uncertain Future Thanks To Global Warming
An issue that should really hit home among the legions of ski resort bums and so-called “weekend warriors” is the looming specter of global warming.
An issue that should really hit home among the legions of ski resort bums and so-called “weekend warriors” is the looming specter of global warming.
January 2005 was the second-warmest January of the past 27 years, according to the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama. It was almost a full degree Fahrenheit warmer than seasonal norms.
I was thrilled to learn that Margie Richard of Louisiana was a winner of the 2004 Goldman Environmental Prize. This was a richly deserved award. I was warmly welcomed into Richard’s home in Norco, Louisiana in 1998, and had the opportunity to meet her again last year when the Society of Environmental Journalists’ conference came to New Orleans.