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Early indications are that this summer will be quite different from the last two. 2009 and 2010 both had persistently above normal temperatures in much of Canada, which led to early melt in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.

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Summer 2011 will start with considerably more multi-year ice than any of the last three years, and temperatures will probably be cooler. Romm may have to work very hard this summer to spin his cataclysmic message of “hope.”

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That is why so many people from Florida and Hawaii vacation in Winnipeg. To escape the extreme weather of the South.

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The experts forecast less snow before they retroactively forecast more snow.

Poor skiers in Austria and Switzerland to suffer the most.

In Switzerland, between 37 per cent and 56 per cent of the country’s ski resorts, including Wildhaus and Unterwasser, could soon have such low levels of snow that they may face “acute difficulties in attracting overseas tourists and local winter sports enthusiasts”, the study says.

“The impacts of climate change on winter tourism may be even more severe in countries such as Germany or Austria due to the lower altitudes of their ski resorts,” researchers say.

The internationally celebrated winter sports town of Kitzbuehl, for example, which is popular among the rich and famous and lies at an altitude of 760 metres, faces extinction as a top ski resort.

The study was published as nations were meeting for a United Nations conference on climate change in nearby Milan.

“Climate change in the form of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods and droughts, is the greatest challenge facing the world. Clearly it is the poorest of the poor on continents like Africa, Asia and Latin America who are at the greatest risk, who are the most vulnerable,” said UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer.

“But this study on winter sports shows that it is not just the developing world that will suffer. Even rich nations are facing potentially massive upheavals with significant economic, social and cultural implications,” Toepfer said.

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