DEDICATED WEBSITE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE IN SKI RESORTS LAUNCHED

08 Aug 2006

A new website dedicated to reporting on how climate change is affecting the world's ski areas, glaciers and polar regions has been launched at
www.saveoursnow.com

The simple, low-budget site is none-the-less rich in content, which
includes:
A database listing what each of the world's top 200 ski areas is doing to fight climate change.
A news archive of relevant stories.
A directory of travel operators who make an effort to counter the increase
in global warming their activities generate.
Details of the varying projections of the increasing affects of climate change on the world's mountainous and polar regions through this century.
The site also has a Q&A section on Global Warming and a list of useful web
links to relevant organisations.

Ski writer Patrick Thorne, based in the Highlands of Scotland, has compiled all content for www.saveoursnow.com. His company has monitored the world's ski areas and published a global weekly ski news service for the past 20 years. "Over the past five or ten years I've noticed that the typical annual spend for ski resorts has switched from new lifts to ever increasing snow making. I have also witnessed glaciers I skied on 20 years ago melting away in front of my eyes. I am very concerned that there doesn't seem to be enough global concern and pooled effort on what's happening to our planet.” said Patrick. "I am in a position to try to report the facts as impartially as I can and that's what I'm doing with this site."

www.saveoursnow.com is a not-for-profit website and accepts no sponsorship or advertising in a bid to stay impartial; links are only made to
organisations that work to publicise the issues or try to help the environment. Operating costs are covered by online donations from supporters.

"There's a lot more to say and I hope to be able to expand the site as resources allow providing for more helpful information in the near future," said Patrick. "Sadly this issue will only get more significant, the ski industry is the metaphorical "miner's canary" or world climate change."

For more information check out www.saveoursnow.com