How ski resorts are (economically) adjusting to climate change

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Snowmaking has helped cover up the effects of climate change for a long time. But by the turn of the century, that started to change. A recent report shows US resorts are opening later, closing earlier, and taking a financial hit. For an industry that relies on snow, the threat is existential. Can ski resorts survive?

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0:19.5	The economy can sometimes feel like a big scary wilderness filled with jargon and
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0:28.8	Yeah, let us be your guide to the global economy.
0:32.6	We brought snacks.
0:33.6	Is that trail mix?
0:34.6	It's actually gorp.
0:36.6	That's Planet Money from NPR. 2023 was the world's warmest year on record, so extreme that the UN just sounded a red alert.
1:02.0	Antarctic Sea ice coverage dropped to a record low.
1:05.4	Upper ocean heat content rose to a record high.
1:08.2	Did you know that?
1:09.0	Indicator producer Cooper Cats McKim?
1:11.1	You know, this may be surprising, but I rarely measure upper ocean heat content.
1:15.6	Uh, so how are you supposed to know climate changes happening, Cooper?
1:19.6	Well, there are these far-off things near where I live in Colorado, also known as mountains, that make it fairly obvious.
1:27.0	Yeah, we were just talking about that on the lift up with somebody else.
1:31.0	I ran into snowboarder Becky Stazac earlier this month at
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