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December 12, 2012

Under certain warming forecasts, more than half of the 103 ski resorts in the Northeast will not be able to maintain a 100-day season by 2039, according to a study to be published next year by Daniel Scott, director of the Interdisciplinary Center on Climate Change at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.

By then, no ski area in Connecticut or Massachusetts is likely to be economically viable, Mr. Scott said. Only 7 of 18 resorts in New Hampshire and 8 of 14 in Maine will be. New York’s 36 ski areas, most of them in the western part of the state, will have shrunk to 9.

Climate Change Threatens Ski Industry’s Livelihood – NYTimes.com

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Box 19-4. The Health Impacts of Climate Change

Warmer winters and fewer cold spells, because of climate change, will decrease cold-related mortality in many temperate countries.

IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Climate expert Barack Obama disputes this  claim, however.

Here at the White House, while we’re beginning to thaw from this week’s bone-chilling deep freeze, our discussions about the science of weather extremes are heating up.

We know that no single weather episode proves or disproves climate change. Climate refers to the patterns observed in the weather over time and space – in terms of averages, variations, and probabilities. But we also know that this week’s cold spell is of a type there’s reason to believe may become more frequent in a world that’s getting warmer, on average, because of greenhouse-gas pollution.

We the Geeks: “Polar Vortex” and Extreme Weather | The White House

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Forty percent of Americans also approve of Obama.

Here at the White House, while we’re beginning to thaw from this week’s bone-chilling deep freeze, our discussions about the science of weather extremes are heating up.

We know that no single weather episode proves or disproves climate change. Climate refers to the patterns observed in the weather over time and space – in terms of averages, variations, and probabilities. But we also know that this week’s cold spell is of a type there’s reason to believe may become more frequent in a world that’s getting warmer, on average, because of greenhouse-gas pollution.

We the Geeks: “Polar Vortex” and Extreme Weather | The White House

During warm winters, they say that global warming makes the weather warmer. During cold winters, they say that global warming makes the weather colder.

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH, and COLD IS WARM

Coal, Carbon Dioxide and Climate – View Article – NYTimes.com

November 10, 1985

AN ARTICLE in Oceanus, the journal of the Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, suggests that most of the methods for restoring and protecting New Jersey’s 127 miles of Atlantic Coast beaches are huge wastes of public money, requiring new capital each time a storm takes away another bit of shore.

Furthermore, the article says, a rise in the sea level could eat up 200 or more feet of beachfront in the next twelve years – perhaps as much as 1.8 miles by the year 2100.

THE ENVIRONMENT – NYTimes.com

Limits to U.S. Policy Are Seen as Violence in Iraq Rages On

The Great Guessing Game – Will California Drought Enter 3d Year? – View Article – NYTimes.com