Climate change isn’t a simple subject. With complicated science, endless data and varying projections of what the future could hold, it can feel hard to know what’s what. If you’re a skier or snowboarder, you’re likely already seeing the impacts of our changing climate, including shifting winter seasons, erratic storms, warmer temperatures in mountain settings and a greater reliance on snowmaking at ski resorts. To shed some light on the topic, we called up a few climate change experts and ski industry insiders to get their take on the biggest misunderstandings people have when it comes to climate and how it affects snowsports. Here’s what we found.

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