New York Times: Bright sunshine and mostly brown slopes welcomed skiers to the Chamonix-Mont-Blanc Valley just before New Year's Eve, a sight that hardly came as a shock.
Across France, December 2015 was already on track to be the warmest since 1900, a fact since confirmed by Météo France, the national weather service.
The toll of global warming on Alpine ski resorts has already been well documented. A 2006-7 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which landed in the middle of...