| One of the most certain effects of less snow will be less skiing in the Rockies.
| "If predicted consequences for global warming are accurate, the bookends for skiing will move in, making the season shorter. Snowmaking will become more necessary and also more expensive. And there will be fewer powder days and more rain days, even in the Rocky Mountains."
Vail Daily, August 24, 2004 |
“A related economic effect of decline in the ski industry could be falling private-property values. . . . [A] significant decline in skiing, or certainly its complete demise, would mean serious economic loss to the resorts, and to the economies of communities heavily dependent on skiing.”
Rocky Mountain/Great Basin Regional Climate-Change Assessment, U.S. GRP (2003) |
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