Weird Winters

Climate One

Social Sciences, Science, News, News Commentary, Earth Sciences

4.7 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Warmer, shorter winters may sound like an impact of climate change that would inspire more joy than despair. But rising temperatures and decreasing snowpack won’t just transform water supplies and species ranges. It will also disrupt a multi-billion dollar winter sport industry, including the jobs and local economies associated with them. “If we're not able to ski or snowboard anymore,” says Mario Molina, CEO of Protect Our Winters, “the least of our concerns will be the activities that we participate in.” So how are winter sports enthusiasts and others preparing to weather the storm? Speakers: Elizabeth Burakowski, Assistant Professor, Earth Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire Kit DesLauriers, National Geographic Explorer; Skimountaineer Geraldine Link, Director of Public Policy, National Ski Areas Association Mario Molina, CEO, Protect our Winters Related Links: Protect Our Winters Higher Love: Climbing and Skiing the Seven Summits National Ski Areas Association Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.5	What will change in a world with warmer, shorter, and wetter winters?
0:36.0	Climate One conversations feature all aspects of the climate
0:39.0	emergency, the individual and the systemic, the exciting and the scary, people who are in power
0:44.8	and people who are disempowered. I'm Greg Dalton. From backyard trails to the top of Mount Everest,
0:52.3	skiing may be the consummate winter sport.
0:54.7	I just love it.
0:55.5	It's just my favorite thing that time of year when the valleys are green below and the
0:59.1	snow's still up high.
1:00.8	That ski mountaineer, a National Geographic explorer, Kit Deloria.
1:04.5	In 2006, she became the first person to ski down the tallest mountains on each continent.
1:10.1	She climbed up Mount Everest and then
1:12.1	skied down. I was kind of like, you guys, get out of the way because there wasn't a lot of room
1:16.7	up there. Most people will never try something so extreme, but volatile winter weather is having
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