Tim Blair

And all those lift operators won't have enough scratch to buy marijuana. The economy will surely crumble!!

Australia has ski resorts?

Bruce:

Cool site, lists ski resorts in all kinds of countries I never would have guessed had any.

Sorry--I screwed up the link. Might as well not try to acquire basic competence on Tim's bandwidth, so:

http://www.goski.com/aus.htm

Oh for God's sake, how can anybody accurately predict what the world will be like that far ahead anyway?

Even if Kyoto was fully implemented it wouldn't matter. According to the best present estimates the Earths temperature would only be lowered by a couple of degrees at the most by century's end so to hell with it, spend the money on something more immediate and practical.

Though again, how can anybody today be that certain about any period of time more distant than ten years from now?

We'll have flying cars by then right? Right?
Cuz I was promised flying cars by the year 2000 and I want my fucking fly car.

On the upside, Alaska is going to make one kickass tropical resort.

Screw it. I'd rather spend the money on terraforming Mars.

I wonder if you can ski on mars?

What if the left are as wrong about that as they have been about everything else?

My weatherman is 50/50 in predicting whether it snows next week. Why should I take their predictions seriously?

Good bye cruel, cruel world!

I remember my grade school teacher in the early 1960's. She showed statistically how Russia would overtake the USA's economy by the year 2000.

Putin -

"Here in Russia you can often hear people say, sometimes jokingly, sometimes seriously, that Russia is a northern country, so if it warms up 2 or 3 degrees it's not terrible," he said. "It might even be good; we'd spend less money on fur coats and other warm things."

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0930greenhouse30.html

What about overpopulation? Wasn't none of this going to matter because overpopulation would have ruined the planet by now?

Bruce,

Govenor Ahnold is leading the way toward terraforming Mars. In the guise of Quaid, he's become a secret agent fighting the special interests in order to activate an ancient mechanism that will return oxygen to the Martian atmosphere...oh wait, that was Total Recall. Never mind.

Meh, I'll refer you to the learned words of noted American thinker Drew Carrey:

"F@ck the grandkids, I'm cold now!"

So learn to water-ski you whinging losers! You can do it in lovely, warm places, do it semi-naked (at least!) and get all wet in the process. Plus you get to burn more fossil fuel, so it's win-win all round.

Why the fuck wouldn't Russia and Canada want the world a few degrees warmer anyway??? That is what I have never understood. The economic benefits of global warming - if it were true - and higher carbon dioxide levels would be immense. You never see this side of the equation even acknowledged by the "true believers" in global warming.

For my money, I reckon we will see the beginning of the next Ice Age within the next few hundred years. Now *that* would be an economic disaster!

TFK

The greens' ambivalence to ski resorts intrigues me. You have wicked rapacious developers cutting great swathes out of pristine wilderness so that evil rich bastards can drive their gas guzzlers up mountains to slide around on ultra-expensive sticks and stay in five-star accommodation. Yet has anyone ever heard a green complain about it? Wouldn't be because quite a lot of greens, particularly in Europe and Colorado, like their downhill recreation. What, greens hypocritical? Never.

New Zealand has great skiing but not mentioned by UN.

Why?

New Zealand who?

Gary:

Papua New Zealand is a subtropical country that shares half of a large South Seas island with Iran Jambalaya, which is part of Malaysia....

Glad to help.

carl

And if we implemented Kyoto, only the wealthy could afford to ski.