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Europe's snow-supply risk rises with warming.
Without snowmaking
Period+2°C and +4°C global warming
BaselineWarming relative to pre-industrial conditions
Share of resorts at very high snow-supply risk; no uncertainty interval supplied here · %
Europe · +2°CSelected53 %
Europe · +4°CSelected98 %
0100 %
Snow-supply risk is not a probability of resort closure. The French Alps result without snowmaking is approximately one third.
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François et al. (2023): 2,234 ski resorts in 28 European countries. Adaptation assumes snowmaking on half of slopes. Regional values follow INRAE's study explanation.
François et al. · European skiing · 2023 ↗2,234 resorts across 28 European countries at +2°C and +4°C global warming. Very high snow-supply risk is a study-defined hazard, not a probability of resort closure. Adaptation assumes snowmaking on 50% of slopes.
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