Archive for the 'Climate change' Category

Romanian snowboarders no-snow protest

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

A group of snowboarders held a protest in Romania recently about the lack of snow.
Romanian snowboarders blocked traffic by staging a protest in front of the national weather institute to complain about the lack of snow.
The sit down protest in the capital Bucharest only ended when weathermen told them their complaint “would be passed […]

Semtex, bulldozers and rock crushing machines

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

… that’s what it takes to get the slopes ready for us to use when the winter comes round, acording to pistehors.com.
One of the consequences of climate change is that snow depths are thinner, particularly at the start of the season. Snow canons can be used to lay down base but they are costly to […]