Snowless ski race helps connect dots between climate change, real problems
By Troy Hooper |
05.07.12 | 9:21 am
Gnarly terrain greeted a group of climate change activists in Aspen over the weekend.
Gnarly terrain greeted a group of climate change activists in Aspen over the weekend.
The combination of an enormous mountain snowpack that’s just starting to melt and suddenly hot, summer-like temperatures and high winds has first responders across Colorado nervously eyeing both swollen waterways and tinder-dry forests and grasslands.
Badly needed snowfall is expected in Colorado’s high country this week, but one expert says the state will need much more than the amount in the forecast to stave off drought on par with the one that marked the parched…