In March, Sports Illustrated published a lengthy cover-story dealing with how global warming was changing the face of sports including World Cup skiing which was forced to cancel one of seven events in Europe last season due to the absence of snow.
Also that month, the New York Times published an article addressing how "the chaos of their calendar this season changed many [World Cup skiers] to climate-change activists."
Deliciously, just seven months later, a new World Cup season began this weekend in Solden, Austria, with absolutely marvelous ski conditions.
Think SI and the Times will be reporting the postponement of the end of skiing as we know it?
While you ponder, the International Herald Tribune reported Friday (emphasis added):
There is abundant snow for the races this weekend, unlike last season, when the glacier race was the first of many races in the Alps that organizers had to cancel because of exceptionally warm temperatures.
For skiers growing scared by all this hysteria that their favorite sport is about to disappear, Timberline Ski Resort on Oregon's Mt. Hood opened for business this weekend: "Fresh snow up high on the mountain has produced excellent Fall season conditions on the Palmer Snowfield, located at the 8500 foot level of the ski area."
Further east, a ski resort in Colorado opened more than two weeks ago: "An October 10th opening; the earliest ever in the resorts 61 year history." Loveland Ski Area opened on October 16.
To be sure, none of this means that global warming isn't happening. However, neither does one bad World Cup season, or even two.
Yet, every weather-related event that has happened in this nation or around the world since Al Gore's schlockumentary was released last year has been attributed to his unproven and fallacious theories.
With that in mind, an honest media would report occurrences suggesting the hysteria is a little overdone if it is at all important for them to appear impartial concerning this matter.
