{"id":161,"date":"2003-12-09T01:23:03","date_gmt":"2003-12-09T01:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:33:41","slug":"winter-sports-threatened-by-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"winter sports threatened by warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As if rising sea levels aren&#8217;t scary enough,  here&#8217;s another reason to fear global warming: It could force your  favorite ski resort to close. A report issued by the United Nations  Environment Program last week said that as global temperatures increase,  and the snowline retreats to higher altitudes, many existing  low-altitude mountain resorts throughout the world will lack reliable  snow cover, be cut off from their ski runs, and risk financial ruin. In  one worst-case scenario, none of Australia&#8217;s ski resorts would be viable  by 2070. The report used temperature forecasts produced by the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of some 2,000  scientists, which estimated that world temperatures will rise anywhere  from 2.5 to 10.4 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100 unless greenhouse gas  emissions are radically reduced. UNEP executive director Klaus Toepfer  said that global warming &#8212; in the form of extreme weather such as  floods and droughts &#8212; will have the most devastating impact on the  world&#8217;s poorest nations, but &#8220;this study on winter sports shows that it  is not just the developing world that will suffer. Even rich nations are  facing potentially massive upheavals with significant economic, social  and cultural implications.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 12\/09\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if rising sea levels aren&#8217;t scary enough, here&#8217;s another reason to fear global warming: It could force your favorite ski resort to close. A report issued by the United Nations Environment Program last week said that as global temperatures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}