Snow ski resorts are leading the cry about global warming.

Environmental update:
*A leaked report from the main body watching climate change will up the predictions again, expect temp change of from 10 to 15°F in your kids lifetime.  New York 115, Needles CA 130, Oklahoma City 125.  These temps kill, outside activities will be impossible on many days of the year.
*350 parts per million of CO2 is thought to be the tipping point.  In the last few years we are creeping right up to it.  The same report predicts 400+.
* Ocean acidity is up 30% in the last 200 years, and increasing.
*Mercury in the ocean is up sharply in the last 100 years, and increasing.

Good news:
EPA came through with a soot reduction requirement Friday.  Diesels and smokestacks and open burning activities will be cleaned up or curtailed.  The deadlines are short, changes must be made in the next few years. Soot absorbs solar heat from incoming rays and heats the atmosphere, carried on the wind it reaches every part of the world then falls on snow and ice collecting suns heat to accelerate the melt, and it makes the snow look yucky.  You can see it in layers of ice growing more evident over the last 2 centuries.  Catching some of this soot also catches Mercury and Lead.

Here is what Cleveland looked like in the late 70's, the EPA has been a positive, there is no doubt, no one wants to go back to that.