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The Colorado Independent | Snow drought forces Colorado to face frightening new climate-change reality


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Just a year after record snowfall throughout much of the Rocky Mountain West, the region is locked in a snow drought not seen since Jimmy Carter surrendered the White House to Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s.

The massive Hayman Fire near Denver in 2002 (Forest Service)

“We have had some very unusual weather so far this season,” Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz said Friday. “For the first time in 30 years, a lack of snow has not allowed us to open the back bowls in Vail as of January 6, 2012, and, for the first time since the late 1800s, it did not snow at all in Tahoe in December.”

Read the entire article in the Colorado Independent: Snow drought forces Colorado to face frightening new climate-change reality.

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