Press cutting: Two decades left to ski
18 February 2007
According to research published today, lowlying resorts such as Kitzböhel, in Austria, and Whistler, in Canada, face closure by 2025, and 40% of Alpine ski stations will see no snow at all by 2030.
The report's author, Professor Bill McGuire, Director of the Benfield Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Hazard Research Centre, said that temperatures in the Alps have increased by 2C since the 1970s. …
"Unless urgent action is taken to combat the effects of climate change, the family skiing holiday could be consigned to the annals of history in less than a quarter of a century."
Chris Haslam, 'The Sunday Times'