Global Warming Causes Swiss Alps Ski Resort To Sell For $1

New York Times:

Bruno Prior, a British entrepreneur, saw the ad from the Ernen ski-lift company one day as he was sipping coffee and looking through the newspaper in London.

Several months later -- after paying the token sum of one Swiss franc, or about 90 cents -- he is the proud owner of four ski lifts, two trail groomers and a restaurant on 12 miles of ski slopes.

Effectively giving the ski operation away was an act of desperation on the part of Ernen, which, like hundreds of other small Alpine ski stations at medium altitudes, faces dire times. Most customers these days prefer the larger resorts with hundreds of miles of ski runs, après-ski activities and luxury shopping. As global warming brings less snow, lower-altitude stations rely more on costly snow machines.

Read the whole story: New York Times

Comments

[CanCar]

It´s not funny. The global warming must be a problem of all around the world. Sooner or later all we will be affected by this problem.

[degjack]

Well folks...global warming is going to kill us all! Better deal with it.

[maddogbitesback]

Well skiers are having trouble with avalanches too. Global warming and its effects upon ski resorts is hardly important news. The effects upon the world are. Take polar bears. No ice no bears. Penguins - not so many nowadays. Heat waves in the arctic. Anyway you can ski in the Emirates now. Not a big hill and not a wonderful view but beggars can't be choosers.

[Ramirez]

It's Bush's fault.

[RDixon]

Headline:
Global warming blah blah blah.

Article:
Since the boom days of the early 1990s, the number of annual overnight stays in Ernen has decreased by almost half, to 90,000 last winter.

Most customers these days prefer the larger resorts with hundreds of miles of ski runs, après-ski activities and luxury shopping.

[realitytrumpsbull]

Yeppers, all the gold teeth in the world won't make the snow fall, but you COULD buy one heck of a snow machine!


LOL