North Face winter apparel president blows off global warming threat to company growth

You’d think a company famous for its sleeping bags and down jackets would be worried about the effects of global warming on its bottom line. Not so, explained North Face president Steve Rendle on Thursday.

Monbiot.com, 2005 » Mocking Our Dreams

Winter is no longer the great grey longing of my childhood. The freezes this country suffered in 1982 and 1963 are - unless the Gulf Stream stops - unlikely to recur.