Resorts Flying in Snow

A French ski resort is under fire for using a helicopter to deliver 50 tonnes (110,000 pounds) of snow that allowed the resort to continue to operate on a limited basis.  Despite the incredible carbon emissions cost of helicopter snow delivery the resort justified their actions as a job preservation measure.  Climate change driven by CO2 emissions is a primary cause of reduced snowfall, so the irony of using an extravagant delivery system to protect of small number of jobs isn't lost on the critics.  

This is a problem at ski resorts everywhere; Vail Resorts has been trying to go Net Zero by 2030 and is running its new high efficiency snow guns on wind power, but you can't make snow when it's 50°F out. According to research published in Geophysical Research Letters, the amount of snow mass in the USA had dropped 41 percent since 1980 and the snow season has shrunk by 34 days.

If only Senator James Inhofe (OK-Oil Shill) could deliver snow to ski resorts the way he did in the US Senate a few years ago.