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For French Ski Resorts, a Scramble to Offset Snow Deficit

New York Times: Bright sunshine and mostly brown slopes welcomed skiers to the Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Valley just before New Year's Eve, a sight that hardly came as a shock. Across France, December 2015 was already on track to be the warmest since 1900, a fact since confirmed by Météo France, the national weather service. The toll of global warming on Alpine ski resorts has already been well documented. A 2006-7 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which landed in the middle of...