Sometimes, we get so lost in our little world of snowboarding, we lose sight of what else is going on.
Readers of this site would know I’m a really passionate environmentalist; I care, a lot.
One of my problems is I am always talking about the bad stuff. Hope sells, despair doesn’t.
Thanks for checking back, we really appreciate it.Australian and overseas marginal ski resort seasons are in deep shit (I’ve stopped caring about saying naughty words – they have more impact).
Seriously. Deep. Shit. So, we’re in the middle of our 2009 Australian ski season and we have a base of around 1metre. Now I remember [...]
We’ve previously written about the insanity of climate change denialism (as opposed to healthy scientific rigour.
You might think this sounds rather boring, Snowboard/Ski-person, but, this prevailing attitude affects you in a profound way. Not just in your ability to pursue your snow addiction, but in your ability to access affordable food and clean water.
I must admit, I am having a lot of difficulty focussing on ski seasons and saving them. It’s hard to focus and worry about ski seasons when there’s a lot more at stake.
With this issue, SKI concludes its 1964-65 winter publishing season, but we hope that our readers will not bring their ski activities to an abrupt end. Some of the best skiing blessed by long sunlit hours comes in March and April and on, in places, to May, June and July. In fact, in a world made smaller by jet aircraft, skiing never ends. To prove the point, Mt. Tom, Massachusetts, instructor Jules Eberhard travelled last summer (northern hemisphere summer, that is) to Australia, whence he sent this picture showing that the chairlift maintenance crew at The Chalet in New South Wales was having an unusually easy time of adjusting sheaves on the towers. The reason: snow, piled up in depths of 38 feet, buried chairs and reached almost to the top of the towers. By the end of July, so much snow had fallen in the winter land of kangaroos and koala bear that hotels has disappeared up to the third floor.
Global warming and climate change are looking worse and worse. Super bad.
Inaction, and inertia, are terribly good at rendering us helpless. It’s easy to feel small, to feel indifferent, to feel like you can’t make a difference. Thing is though, you can (this is part of the reason I spend 2 hours a day reading constantly, and then blogging).
Unfortunately, as conservatives like to point out when advocating doing nothing, we’re at best 2% of the world’s emissions.
Think about that for a moment. Australia faces perhaps total disaster in the next 100 years, but we have no control over it. The rest of the world does. Americans. Europeans. Chinese. Indians. Russians. Our fate is in their hands
Yes. We believe that climate change (with resultant warming) is occuring.
Yes, the planet has warmed and cooled of it’s own accord.
But never this fast.
Why are we still debating this I wonder? Because the debate is getting in the way of action.
Back in March 2008, I visited the Northern Lights wolf education centre in the Northern Purcells near Golden, BC (Canada) whilst on my way to Kicking Horse. I posted about it, with some photos of the beautiful creatures.
