“Michele Comi is a geologist, mountain guide and Alpine skiing instructor from Chiesa in Valmalenco, a town 900 meters above sea level that sits at the mouth of a valley in the central Italian Alps, a region renowned for its skiing.
Comi recalls how, growing up in the 1970s and ’80s, children would go sledding in the meadow outside of what today is his studio every winter. “Kids with sleds have since disappeared, not because they don’t enjoy sliding downhill anymore, but because there isn’t any snow.”
This is just one of the many “visible signs” of how Alpine landscapes have transformed under the pressure of climate change. One only has to look at a thermometer to realize how “obvious” these shifts are, Comi says.”
Is global warming dooming snow sports and the Winter Olympics?
The Japan Times, 15/02/26
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