This is a big deal. The mountains are thawing and crumbling [2].
1: https://www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/klima/klima-aktuell/klimamonit...
Kitzbühel in early March looked like it usually does in May. I didn't bother trying after that. For those not familiar with skiing in Austria, that is a relatively expensive area that has loads of snow-making capacity.
The schools have learning to ski in their agenda, I really don't know how that's going to happen.
"The mean annual temperature has increased by 1.6°C between 1864 and 2008"
https://www.climatechangepost.com/austria/climate-change/
On target with everyone else.
Scientific consensus is that climate change is real, is impacted by human activity, and shows no sign of abating. We're seeing weather patterns that are breaking records and seasonal changes that correspond with a warming planet.
The denial of these concerns seem to be either from those who are directly profiting from factors contributing to it or those whose political beliefs associate it with a hoax by the enemy.
Fossil fuels provided cheap energy to transform civilization but it's not the only game in town anymore. Transitioning away from them brings significant benefits that are worthy enough regardless of "saving the planet" (e.g., cheaper power, less pollution, energy independence, less environmental destruction, etc).
Seems like we are not much better at figuring it all out if we believe scientific consensus is anything but a political activity.
There is a group who believes the climate is changing but question those who selectively use dates to make the situation appear more dramatic. There is a financial motive in many cases and others have had too many glasses of koolaid