High and dry: Alpine resorts grapple with climate change

The prospect of searing heatwaves driving holidaymakers to cool mountains and children asking grandparents about their memories of snow is focusing minds in Alpine ski resorts on the implications of climate change.

With global warming widely expected to slash snowfall, especially at lower levels, the Swiss tourism industry is looking for ways to preserve a lucrative business brutally exposed to the weather.

I fail to understand the hysteria of the opening couple of paragraphs, winters in Europe have produced some incredibly cold winters in the last couple of decades in fact the Euro Tunnel was closed between France and Britain due to high levels of snow, the amusing thing was one of those closures happened in the middle of World Government meeting in Copenhagen over the fantasy of Global warming.

Government data already shows a 24% drop in skiers in the decade to 2016, with other factors as well as climate change.

I'd like to see the results of this Government data that says Climate Change was one of the reasons skiers decided to attending when the Swiss ski resorts offer some of the best skiing in winter - I would believe high costs, crowded ski slopes and even better access to alternative countries such as South Korea and Japan.