Letter to the editor: Summit’s good snow year casts doubt on climate change
Katy, Texas
“Summit County snowpack outpaces past five seasons and state of Colorado as forecast calls for more storms” — This was a headline in Summit Daily.
So, I wonder where all the climate change advocates are now? I’ve stayed in Dillon and Silverthorne for the month of September every year since 2001. I lived in Denver for 12 years. I’ve heard constantly the cries of global warming and climate change — The mountains are not getting enough snow; snow melt run-off is not sufficient; the Colorado River Basin is drying up. I guess that this year is an anomaly? Or maybe the climate change advocates are wrong? We should all know that weather is cyclical. There have been warm/dry periods and cool/wet periods over thousands of years.

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