CARRABASSETT VALLEY – Heads up, winter sports lovers. Whether you are a downhill or Nordic skier, snowmobiler, ice-fisherman, snowboarder, skater, dogsledder, winter hiker — or if you just enjoy sitting by the fire watching the snow fall — the outdoors is changing.
Perhaps you’ve noticed a few inconvenient events in recent years. You can’t count on as much snow and or solid ice to enjoy your sport. Wind is heavier and more destructive, causing outages and blow-downs.
But in the not-too-far-off future, snowmobilers and skiers and fishermen — and Maine’s strong winter tourism industry that depends on them — will suffer more serious setbacks. That is, if we don’t take action now to protect the years ahead.
We can do something to save winter and the lifestyle we love. Come find out how at a fun and illuminating panel discussion with one of Maine’s preeminent experts on climate change.
The discussion will be Saturday, October 6 at 3 p.m. at the Sugarloaf Outdoor Center on Rte. 27 in Carrabassett Valley.
The event, Losing Winter? Climate Change In Ski Country and What We Can Do About It, is free and open to everyone. Refreshments will be served starting at 2:30.
Ivan Fernandez heads up University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute. He works on a national level with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, represents University of Maine in the Northeast Climate Hub, and researches and promotes what Maine needs to do to adapt to a new climate.
Joining Ivan is Jesse Lowell, a former competitive freestyle skier, 2014 Carrabassett Valley Academy graduate, and an environmental studies major at St. Lawrence University. Michael Jones, Economist from Bowdoin College, and Dr. Paul Perkins, member of Bath-Brunswick Chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby and climate committee of Maine chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, round out the panel.
The Bath/Brunswick, Bangor, and Mid-Maine chapters of the national volunteer group, Citizens Climate Lobby, are hosting the event. All are welcome. Bring friends and family to listen, learn, and socialize. For more information, contact Dodie Jones at 207-522-7074.
When the dinosaurs were around the Earth had an average temperature of 80F or 20 degrees higher than today. then the Earth started cooling, at the start of the Ice Age the average temp dropped to 10 degrees below today’s average of 58F this covered North America from Northern Canada to Missouri in a sheet of ice 2 miles thick, 12,000 years ago the Earth came out of the ice age, since coming out of the ice age(it did it without man’s help) the Earth’s average temperature has never gone above or below normal by more than 1.1 to 2.3 degrees. So if the Earth is getting warmer, explain how for the past 12,000 years, temps have been almost on a plateau.
@Hrtlss Bstrd, get your diploma from a cracker jack box?
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery, thanks.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.- Socrates
You make it look easy HB. Wiping the floors with these brainwashed half wits is getting too easy nowadays. They can’t even dispute anymore and go strait to name calling and degradation like school children. We the people need to purge the incredible destructive movements like Climate change.
Climate Change= Large corporations high jacking huge sections of our economy while tricking feeble minded folks into thinking they are here to save the world
#metoo= Female supremacy group that uses very similar tactics as other supremacy groups like the KKK to intimidate and silence opposition.
Industrial abortion= Murder. People claim abortion is a right but fail to mention the millions of females and future women slaughtered in the womb since the 70s.
Big Pharma= Causes more death and destruction in this world than anybody really wants to admit.
The list could go on and on and…………………