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How climate change could hurt Colorado’s bottom line
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Folks at Aspen have been noticing changes in the ski season. | flickr user Zach Dischner
The Climate Desk is a new collaborative effort to blah blah blah. That’s how I felt when I read the various releases about the Climate Desk today. Sorry, it’s true.
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Here’s what it is: a bunch of people writing about climate change. At the moment, they’re looking at the business of climate change, which is pretty fascinating. Some of the stories come from established news sources like Mother Jones, Grist, Slate and the Atlantic, and some appear to be special to the Climate Desk.
The featured story at the moment gets into just how folks are planning on making money (or losing less money) thanks to climate change, saying, “Spend a couple of hours wandering through the websites of various industrial associations—aluminum manufacturers, real-estate agents, wineries, agribusinesses, take your pick—and you’ll find straightforward statements about the grim reality of climate change that wouldn’t seem out of place coming from Greenpeace.”
And there’s even a little look at Colorado’s most famous industry:
Now, all this tricky weather hasnt exactly destroyed Aspen Skiing; the firm could probably survive even worse stuff. The top of the mountain is so high “we can ski it in 50 years and itll be great,” Schendler notes. But it could certainly erode Aspens profits, and Colorado would suffer: The ski industry overall is a $2 billion business for the state, employing fully 8 percent of the workforce. So to try and preserve its profit margins, the Aspen Skiing Company has recently become a loud voice in favor of congressional action on the climate. In 2007, Schendler testified before the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, calling for a cap on carbon emissions—among other things.
“Our attitude when we go to Congress is, look, were a business!” he adds. “We didnt ask for this. We just started looking at the data and the science dispassionately and said, Look, weve got a problem.”
Read the rest over at the Climate Desk.
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