Italy's ski industry fires cannon against climate change

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Italy's ski industry fires cannon against climate change
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Monte Cimone, a popular ski resort in Italy's Apennine Mountains, invested 5 million euros in artificial snowmaking before the winter season in an attempt to stave off the impact of global warming. The money was largely wasted.

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The snow cannon proved useless because the water droplets they fire into the air need freezing weather for them to fall to the ground as snow, and until mid-January the temperature never fell below zero Celsius .

While climatologists and even the Bank of Italy suggest the second course of action, most ski operators are defiant. Italy started to develop artificial snow machines around 1990 after two almost snowless years in the Alps. It is now a world leader. One of its main producers, TechnoAlpin, supplied the 2022 Winter Olympic games in Beijing.

Last month activists with flags and banners gathered at Pian del Poggio, in Italy's Apennines, to protest against the installation of snow cannon at the 1,300 metre high resort.

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They're bitching about climate changing ruining their businesses while significantly contributing to it with their artificial snow machines. I'd say their business is part of the problem. Ffs, if there's no snow to ski on, guess what: you don't ski. Periodt.

You have a gold ✔️- are you paying elonmusk a thousand per month to have it?

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