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Reuters UK
By Stefano Bernabei MONTE CIMONE, Italy (Reuters) - Monte Cimone, a popular ski resort in Italy’s Apennine Mountains, invested 5 million euros in artificial snowmaking before the winter season in an attempt to stave off the impact of global warming. The money was largely wasted. The snow cannon proved useless because the water droplets they fire into the air need freezing weather for them to fall to the ground as snow, and until mid-January the temperature never fell below zero Celsius (32 Fahrenheit). “The ski-lifts were closed, the ski instructors and seasonal workers had nothing to do and w…
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