Global Warmings effect on Australian ski resorts
Abstract
The Snow sports industry relies on two essential items to keep the business going, one of which is a mountain and the other, Snow. With global warming affecting seemingly everything on this planet, raising temperatures and the icecaps melting many people are believing that the end of the world is nigh, yet the operators of ski resorts and surrounding businesses know that their world is over, there will just be no snow to ski on.
this paper will delve into what would happen to Australian ski resorts if global warming became reality not just a theory, and how they will combat this problem. The report will be using reputable sources from both industry professionals and scientists whose field of expertise is Global warming.
The paper will conclude that Australian ski resorts have Plans in Place that will help Keep the Businesses profitable in the long term, however More needs to be done to Guarantee The Ski resorts open for What they are there for....Skiing.
Australian ski resorts are going to be frontline victims of global warming. It’s not a matter of if anymore it’s a matter of when. But the resorts are not planning to shut up shop. They are making plans to ensure their viability for many years to come.
Snow making is critical, but so is the development of the resorts into year round destinations.
That is the future for ski resorts in Australia.
While last year’s ski season was one of the worst on record, resorts will tell you that a single season can’t be put down to climate change and its affects are not yet upon us.
Some scientists disagree, new research by the former Bureau of meteorology professor Neville Nicholls, now with Monash University, found that in one area of th ...