Brian Lear on WNYC.

And now we turn to our climate story of the week,

which we do every Tuesday on the show.

Spring-like temperatures will warm up New York

and New Jersey this week ahead of a powerful rainstorm we are told and upstate

New York is looking at record high temperatures but it's still winter even if

there's little snow to show for it and the lack of snow is closely tied to

persistently mild weather even if there has been a lot of precipitation in the

form of rain. According to the Washington Post this winter could end up as the warmest on record

in the contiguous United States, the 48 states, driven by the El Nino climate pattern and human-caused climate change. Now among some of the climate school breaks like last weeks as well as three day weekends like President's Day that can make

or break the entire year for some of those businesses, but making snow has historically contributed to the very emissions that cause climate change and the lack of natural snow.

Joining us now on how ski resorts battling a lack of snow due to global warming are making snow using

greener technologies.

Our guest is Teak Root, Senior Staff Writer at Grist, a non news organization covering climate, justice, and solutions.

Teak, thanks for coming on.

Welcome to WNYC.

Thanks for having me and I'm bummed about this warm weather but it's it makes for

interesting conversation. Right, bumed long term even if it's a nice day when you

walk out and it feels good in the short term.

Listeners, I want to open up the phones right away.

I wonder if any of you out there

tuning in right now have worked at ski resorts

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