 merrie says: From an unfazed Associated Press The tourism season is young, so there are few statistics indicating how it’s going. In Maine, those that are available point to a rough start. In June, traffic was down 3 percent on the Maine Turnpike, and day use at state parks was down by nearly a third. There’s no sugarcoating the bitter pill in a state where "Vacationland" is on the license plates and tourism is the biggest industry, pumping $10 billion into the economy. Vaughn Stinson, chief executive officer of the Maine Tourism Association, put the damage at millions of dollars in Maine alone. "When you have just day after day after day of that, it just really dampens " no pun intended " everyone’s enthusiasm," Stinson said. It’s certainly bad for businesses that had to close. Story Land in Conway, N.H., and Funtown Splashtown USA in Saco are among those that closed briefly. Under sunny skies, Friday marked only the seventh day in two weeks that Aquabaggon news.yahoo.com . . . a water park in Saco, was able to open this summer. “That’s depressing,” said Lynn Hurst, general manager. “This park has been open for 30 years, and we’ve never had a start like this before.” In addition to being rainy, the summer could rank among the coolest in the Northeast, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University… It’s odd, but there is no mention of ‘global warming’ or even ‘climate change’ in this entire article. Indeed, the AP scrupulously avoids mentioning that June and July have been among the coolest on record for most of the North East until near the bottom of the article. And yet if such a downturn could have been pinned on carbon emis... Climate change. Why global warming is in the news. |
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