Save Our Snow: No Sean Hannity? No Rush Limbaugh? No Gov. Herbert? - The Park Record

One of the organizers of the Save Our Snow II event said no climate change skeptics were invited to present Wednesday at the Eccles Center to counterbalance the speakers who outlined their predictions that a changing climate could be devastating to the local ski industry.

Trisha Worthington, the executive director of the Park City Foundation, said, though, the organizers asked the experts who spoke to acknowledge there are doubters. She said the speakers "tried to weave that into their presentations."

"The idea never came up" to invite a skeptic to be a presenter, she said.

Climate change threatens survival of mountain birds

There is another survey on the Swiss Alps region, which also showed that since 1990, the number of crooning spigots of snow chicken had at least been decreased by one third. The heat rate mountain cock in Switzerland also dropped by 45 percent from 1971to 2001.

2008: Cold spring kills songbirds in Minnesota

The chilly, snowy spring has killed scores of songbirds in the northern two-thirds of Minnesota.

Officials of the state Department of Natural Resources have received many reports of dead swallows, bluebirds, kinglets, sparrows, robins and warblers since last week.

The birds apparently starved to death because of a lack of insects caused by cold weather and late-April snow.