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We have almost no snow around Oslo at the moment, which is quite rare. There are talks about canceling some upcoming ski competitions because it doesn't make se

We have almost no snow around Oslo at the moment, which is quite rare. There are talks about canceling some upcoming ski competitions because it doesn't make sense to use snow canon when temperatures are positive (ºC). Meanwhile, a company just opened a small ski resort indoors (a bit like in Dubai) 10~15 minutes by car from the city center: https://snooslo.no https://snooslo.no. The goal is to have it open and at -4ºC all year long. This is so backwards :(

whb07 7y ago
Just wait till the world gets tired of hydro carbons and the “rich” middle eastern countries can go back to being poor like everyone else. They aren’t hedging their bets by learning how to work and create things. This will come back to bite them. But in the mean time, let’s keep snow skiing in the mall with all this foreign money.
- rjsw 7y ago
  Dubai was just an example of somewhere with indoor skiing, there are other places aroung Europe and one in the US.
- jakub_g 7y ago
  Dubai has been investing heavily in tourism and business (0% tax, and being pretty liberal for a islamic country) for years.
  - Terretta 7y ago
    > being pretty liberal for an islamic country For some unpredictable value of “pretty liberal” perhaps? For instance, sex out of wedlock or cohabitation are illegal, including for tourists. ”If you holiday in the emirate unmarried and you come to the attention of the authorities ... if it’s then discovered you’re sharing a room and a bed you can be jailed and then deported.”
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    - ceejayoz 7y ago
      "Pretty liberal for an Islamic country" is not the same as "liberal by Western standards".
      - GordonS 7y ago
        I think the issue in Dubai is more about the inconsistency of enforcing their laws. They look the other way almost all the time - until they don't.
hef19898 7y ago
Oslo, too? Damn, tried skiing last week in Germisch-Partenkirchen. No luck, Khandhar was more green then white, +2 Celsius in the shadows at 9 in the morning. Not the first time, but the first time I had that in January. Mentally said goodbye to day trips, I'm simply living too far from the Alps now it seems. Going back to my youth in 80s and 90s, I remember skiing from late November all the way to, say, March. At resorts that closed over a decade ago due to a lack of snow.
danjac 7y ago
Same here in Finland. No snow, or maybe an occasional flurry or morning frost that melts the next day. Feels very ominous.
- throwaway5752 7y ago
  It is. It is super ominous. Scientists have been doing their best to warn the general public for decades. Sometimes I wish there were an afterlife so the people knowingly preventing action would have some sort of consequence. So many people will preventably die in the coming years and decades, and we will have destroyed the planet for centuries everyone who is left. I think people generally don't appreciate how much worse the climate will get even if every person instantaneously disappeared and all anthropogenic CO2 emissions stopped.

whb07 7y ago

Just wait till the world gets tired of hydro carbons and the “rich” middle eastern countries can go back to being poor like everyone else. They aren’t hedging their bets by learning how to work and create things. This will come back to bite them. But in the mean time, let’s keep snow skiing in the mall with all this foreign money.

rjsw 7y ago
Dubai was just an example of somewhere with indoor skiing, there are other places aroung Europe and one in the US.
jakub_g 7y ago
Dubai has been investing heavily in tourism and business (0% tax, and being pretty liberal for a islamic country) for years.
- Terretta 7y ago
  > being pretty liberal for an islamic country For some unpredictable value of “pretty liberal” perhaps? For instance, sex out of wedlock or cohabitation are illegal, including for tourists. ”If you holiday in the emirate unmarried and you come to the attention of the authorities ... if it’s then discovered you’re sharing a room and a bed you can be jailed and then deported.”
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  - ceejayoz 7y ago
    "Pretty liberal for an Islamic country" is not the same as "liberal by Western standards".
    - GordonS 7y ago
      I think the issue in Dubai is more about the inconsistency of enforcing their laws. They look the other way almost all the time - until they don't.

hef19898 7y ago

Oslo, too? Damn, tried skiing last week in Germisch-Partenkirchen. No luck, Khandhar was more green then white, +2 Celsius in the shadows at 9 in the morning. Not the first time, but the first time I had that in January. Mentally said goodbye to day trips, I'm simply living too far from the Alps now it seems. Going back to my youth in 80s and 90s, I remember skiing from late November all the way to, say, March. At resorts that closed over a decade ago due to a lack of snow.

danjac 7y ago

Same here in Finland. No snow, or maybe an occasional flurry or morning frost that melts the next day. Feels very ominous.

throwaway5752 7y ago
It is. It is super ominous. Scientists have been doing their best to warn the general public for decades. Sometimes I wish there were an afterlife so the people knowingly preventing action would have some sort of consequence. So many people will preventably die in the coming years and decades, and we will have destroyed the planet for centuries everyone who is left. I think people generally don't appreciate how much worse the climate will get even if every person instantaneously disappeared and all anthropogenic CO2 emissions stopped.