On January 6 the BBC sent a reporter to Torgen to show a ski resort devoid of snow and warned that an entire industry was being killed off by man made global warming. That was, of course, fake news as I demonstrated here on 24 January by when the website onthesnow.co.uk showed 66% of Swiss reports open for ski-ing. Now guess what?
On 24 January I noted
“You will see that 21 resorts are “temporarily closed”. That is to say they should be open at this time of year but are not because of insufficient snow. But almost all do now have some snow on the ground so you’d hope these resorts do start to open up as the global warming starts to fall. There are another 25 low lying resorts that are never open at this time but have start dates for skiing given and appear to be on track. Nearly all will be open by February as per usual. Meanwhile there are 91 resorts open for skiing. Now I concede far from all trails and lifts are open at the 91. But with more snow on the way the percentages are going only one way. They are certainly not “closed.””
Now I revisit onthesnow.co.uk after a couple more weeks of global warming falling hard in the mountains and discover that 134 resorts are now open. Seven are temporarily closed although all seven have snow on the ground, just not quite enough yet. And eleven low lying resorts are closed but most of those seem set to open next week. Thus we now have an 88% open rate for an industry that the GroupThink want us to believe is being killed by climate change.
As for Torgen itself, as of four days ago the snow was between 40 and 100 centimetres hard packed, 7 of the 11 runs and 6 of 7 lifts were open. And, yes, in the past few days more snow has fallen in Switzerland so that global warming will be lying a bit more deeply in Torgen and at nearly all resorts now.
What are the chances of the BBC correcting its sensationalist and grossly misleading reporting? There is more chance of me getting to shag Cheryl Cole this weekend.