Skiing's Future

[tirolski]

It snowed a bit at Arapahoe Basin Tuesday.

The White Stuff

Yesterday afternoon was pretty stormy up here and some white stuff fell out of the sky. In the base area, it was more like hail. One of the ...

arapahoebasin.blogspot.com

 

[Zykamps]

You live up in Berne? I am moving there next summer. Based on terrain there Has to be some good bc in that area.

Berne... I'm fairly close and have been eyeing some lines in the state lands near me.

 

[raisingarizona]

Fascinating but also scary stuff. The article suggests we can get through climate change without massive wars. That sounds unlikely to me but who knows.

No mention about skiing though. If the predictions mentioned are correct then there won’t be much of that. I think it would still be an activity but only for the extremely wealthy.

Where We'll End Up Living as the Planet Burns

Over the next fifty years, hotter temperatures combined with intense humidity are set to make large swathes of the globe lethal to live in.

time.com

 

[Warp daddy]

Fascinating but also scary stuff. The article suggests we can get through climate change without massive wars. That sounds unlikely to me but who knows.

No mention about skiing though. If the predictions mentioned are correct then there won’t be much of that. I think it would still be an activity but only for the extremely wealthy.

Where We'll End Up Living as the Planet Burns

Over the next fifty years, hotter temperatures combined with intense humidity are set to make large swathes of the globe lethal to live in.

time.com

Interesting read . Was impressed about their comments about the 45Th parallel being the new North American sweetspot by mid century . We live on the 45th parallel ( close ) better tell my offspring and grandkids to hold on to the hacienda when im pushing up daisies

 

[DHA]

Fascinating but also scary stuff. The article suggests we can get through climate change without massive wars....

Where We'll End Up Living as the Planet Burns

Over the next fifty years, hotter temperatures combined with intense humidity are set to make large swathes of the globe lethal to live in.

time.com

That Time article seems wildly optimistic about how nations and people will accept a massive influx of people. Do you really believe that Canadians are going to be thrilled with incoming hoards of more non-natives from the south? Will billions be able to be relocated peacefully and orderly? I already see how people in Montana are reacting to newcomers. There are signs all over the state, advocating for out of state newbies to go home. And of course the rich are going to leave behind the poor in such migrations. Just look at the area around Glacier National Park. Talk about being over run by the rich. No this isn't going to be pretty.

 

[raisingarizona]

That Time article seems wildly optimistic about how nations and people will accept a massive influx of people. Do you really believe that Canadians are going to be thrilled with incoming hoards of more non-natives from the south? Will billions be able to be relocated peacefully and orderly? I already see how people in Montana are reacting to newcomers. There are signs all over the state, advocating for out of state newbies to go home. And of course the rich are going to leave behind the poor in such migrations. Just look at the area around Glacier National Park. Talk about being over run by the rich. No this isn't going to be pretty.

Well, the author seems to grabbing the worst case scenario for temperature changes and impacts and I have absolutely no idea how accurate it is but……yeah, I totally agree.

Most people don’t seem to have any idea about the actual implications of climate change. It’s going to really fuck everyone except the extremely wealthy. Y’all ready for some Hunger Games?

 

[tirolski]

That Time article seems wildly optimistic about how nations and people will accept a massive influx of people. Do you really believe that Canadians are going to be thrilled with incoming hoards of more non-natives from the south?

With ~1/2 of Cananada living just north of The Upstate in about the same size region, tain’t a problem.
Lots of room.

50% of Canadians Live South of The Red Line - Brilliant Maps

Map created by reddit user Machetegun

brilliantmaps.com

 

[DHA]

With ~1/2 of Cananada living just north of The Upstate in about the same size region, tain’t a problem.
Lots of room.

50% of Canadians Live South of The Red Line - Brilliant Maps

Map created by reddit user Machetegun

brilliantmaps.com

It's not that they don't "have room" (as defined by the author). Its whether those who live in those roomy places NOW want to share. DO NOT COUNT ON IT! Montana seems to be basically empty to you and me, yet nobody but real estate agents welcome the rich who are moving in here, driving up prices on everything. History tells us that we'd better be prepared for open hostility from many of those who currently live anywhere when faced with what they perceive to be a mass "invasion" of newcomers. I doubt that the few thousand Nunavut (who are 99% Native North Americans) are not going to be at all happy with the political dilution that will come with masses of population from the rest of the world. That's my problem with the Time article.

 

[Campgottagopee]

It's not that they don't "have room" (as defined by the author). Its whether those who live in those roomy places NOW want to share. DO NOT COUNT ON IT! Montana seems to be basically empty to you and me, yet nobody but real estate agents welcome the rich who are moving in here, driving up prices on everything. History tells us that we'd better be prepared for open hostility from many of those who currently live anywhere when faced with what they perceive to be a mass "invasion" of newcomers. I doubt that the few thousand Nunavut (who are 99% Native North Americans) are not going to be at all happy with the political dilution that will come with masses of population from the rest of the world. That's my problem with the Time article.

They better get used to it. If it's for sale, someone will buy it. Nature of the beast.

 

[Warp daddy]

Calling SBR : perspective from our resident Canadiana expert

Here in St Lawrence County we have a population of 108 ,000 in a gepgraphic area that is the largest county in NYS AND FIFTH largest county east of the Mississippi and larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware...


Reference To the articles citation as the 45 th parallel being a potential sweetspot : My latitude is 44.7 just brushing up on the the 45th parallel which lies approximately 16 miles North in Kemptville Ont .