Last year was a bad year for skiing, although we saved a small fortune in heat. We´ll take our chances. If it snows, we ski.

Chicken Little comes to mind....

Looks like the sky is falling crowd started with the NY Times. If they keep up this effort, even when there is great snow, you´ll never be able to afford to go because you can´t afford to take vacations after you pay the carbon tax built into gas price, energy bills, and airline tickets.

First day of winter: one week away.
I don´t hear too much worry when the slopes are still open in April, a full month beyond the first day of spring.
Fact is, most ski resorts close not for lack of snow in the springtime, but for lack of skiers and thus the prohibitive cost of staying open then.

We have LOTS of snow here in Oregon and skiing starts soon.
Its called winter, and with winter comes coldness and snow.
Then, amazingly a new weather pattern happens, that´s called summer and with that comes heat.
Man, weather science is pretty easy when you think about it without a political agenda. :-)

Squaw Valley just reported a foot of new snow.

"Without intervention, winter temperatures are projected to warm an additional 4 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century," the report says,

GIGO.

Careful reading lets you know it is agitprop:

"The study, which predicts U.S. winter tourism is in for tough times if climate change goes unchecked, is aimed mostly at the tourist industry"

One word: "IF".

IF it gets too hot we can´t ski. Duh.

This is agitprop from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Checking it out on www.muckety.com one discovers the usual connections and the usual suspects.

http://www.muckety.com/Natural-Resources-Defense-Council/5011169.muckety

This article is not news nor even opinion. It is propaganda.

2011 was a record snowfall year. So much snow fell that the chicken littles ran around in circles praying it didn´t melt too fast or the Missisippi river would rip through the levees and open a new deepwater port somewhere just east of houston.

No comments on how Global warming was destroying the ski resorts that year.

2012 was one of the Lowest snowfall years on record so much so that the Platte river was recording 0 flow in july and august. Obviously one year of low snowfall means global warming is destroying the ski industry.

I can guarantee the only response we wuld get if every year for the next quarter century we get 2 to 3 times the normal snowfall is "Global warming is causing extreme weather, when the cycle inevitably starts again we will all roast too death. And there will be no skiing.

Snow in Colorado (the only state I´ve looked at) is behind even last year but the weather patterns are no where near the same. Last year it was too warm, this year its plenty cold but the moisture has not shown up yet.

The snowpack on Oregon biggest mountains averages 12 to 15 feet, and that´s the base, actual snowfall is much higher. Some winters it´s more and they open early, some winters it´s less and they open late.

I don´t ski - so it makes no difference to me.

Turn the ski resorts into casinos!

The National Resources Defense Council is also listed and described in David Horowitz´ invaluable collection of Leftist organizations and networks, Discover the Networks:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6898

I´ve got some news for them. If the economy doesn´t improve dramatically, it will not matter how much snow they get. The tourism industry will suffer. The looming tax increases are going to do far more damage to the ski industry than a fraction of a degree in temperature increase will.

This must mean this will be an epic winter for snow. Wake me up when there is even a slight reduction. Doesn´t this melting happen every year in the spring?

If everyone in this country cut the electric lines, biked to work and the grocery store instead of taking the car out of the garage, threw away the cellphones, planted gardens and did away with the beef and pork industries, there would be zero effect on snowfall patterns.

BTW - since when are Leftists concerned about the economiic condition of the ski industry?

After all, skiing is a recreational activity enjoyed primarily by wealthy, white elitist conservatives, who, when not driving to exclusive, far-off mountain resort communities to live in their ostentatious houses and condominiums, are also adding to the pollution of the air by driving and jetting into these locations - trips that are almost always unnecessary.

/s off/

Between Obamacare and taxes, no one will have any discretionary income for skiing, so we need not worry about climate change baloney.

First the Tea Party came for the Ski Resorts next it is the Golf Courses.

Just got the skis down from the attic of my garage. We will be skiing tomorrow night. Possibly pond hockey tonight. We didn´t get snow til February last year and I don´t remember it being a problem. You do other things.

The snow cover over the continental US has been greater than normal this year.

Regardless, ever since the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, where the advocates told world leaders that it would cost tens of trillions of dollars to fix global warming, and the developed nations would have to gut their own economies to boot, there has been no interest in doing anything about it. Internationally it´s a dead issue.

Dear idiot reporter;
Some winters it snows a lot, some winters it hardly snows at all, most winters are somewhere in between. We call it "weather."

There´s still plenty of snow in Greenland.

The fools put out an article like this before winter actually arrives?
Prepare for a repeat of the Blizzard of ´1888!
Only God knows how much snow will fall this winter.

Minnesota already has seen nearly 20" of snow so far this month. More to come.

Algore must be spending the holiday season outside of the US this year.

Yahoo Sports (as well as News) .....left of the NYTimes & Bloomberg ... which is saying a lot. I´d be very careful with anything taken at face value from Yahoo news/sports