NC ski resorts adapt to changing climate - WRAL News
NC ski resorts adapt to changing climate
Ski resorts in North Carolina are seeing less snow as the climate changes, but technology and year-round options keep the visitors coming.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.