Alps Warmest in Over 1,000 Years

[Bluebear]

December 6, 2006 A study released Tuesday by climatologist Richard Boehm, of Austria’s Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, states that climate change is attributing to the Alps’ warmest winter weather in 1,300 years. And to cap it off, Boehm claims that the climate in the Alps will “undoubtedly get warmer” the Associated Press (AP) reported.

The study, funded by the European Union, focused on simulated climate conditions for the last 1,000 years, and collected data from the last 250 years in the region bordered by France’s Rhone Valley in the west; Budapest, Hungary, in the east; Tuscany, Italy, to the south; and Nuremberg, Germany, to the north, the AP reported.

The big question for skiers is how this will affect the future of the industry and resorts located in the Alps....

“This is something that I have never seen before,” Sigrid Pichler, PR Manager for the Austrian Tourism Office, told Outside Online. “Conditions have never been this extreme, and have never before effected resorts that are located at higher elevations.”

http://outside.away.com/outside/news/20061207_1.html

[Az]

1. Its the cows.

Nothing any human has ever done could possibly affect the world. Its definately not us. Stop looking for the cause amongst the humans. :sarcasm:

[Lasthorseman]

2. There are

a bunch of new age sites that point to changes in our entire solar system, not just earth. They point to the year 2012 which also coincides with prophecies from multiple cultures and times. Bigger than even the Christian rapture the thought is that we are moving away and evolving into a new dimension. That might just be cool.

[Az]

4. Egads. Thats the Mayan end of the world cabal

It made some waves in the fundimentalist sects for a while there. I think its also a large part of what motivated Mel Christ to make his most recent blood filled epic.

[theoldman]

3. Maybe more frozen bodies will be exposed.

[marmar]

5. Doesn't it seem sometimes like the world is irretrievably fucked now, no matter what we do?

:scared:

[Az]

6. Not really

We have a sense of immediacy and crisis because our particular society is ... troubled. But really when you look at things from a broader perspective things are actually doing much better throughout the world. Even here we have not utterly lost our way. Yeah, we have problems. But the thing is societies heal. This is actually the thing the conservatives don't get. Particularly the NeoCons. They fear progress because it brings change and they think that change brings destruction and destabalization of society. Bleh... societies cope, adapt, and evolve.

[Karenina]

7. Yes.

[wake.up.america]

8. I live very near the Austrian Alps. I normally can see snow in October ...

on the higher summits. Its December, but no snow!! Warum?

[Karenina]

9. Weil, wir tief in der

SCHEISßE sitzen.

[wake.up.america]

10. Sehr, sehr seltsam. Obwohl, heute schneit es bis 800 meter runter.

[Bluebear]

11. Es schneit aber hier nicht...

Neu England in Dezember mit noch keine schnee, unmoeglich!

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. And it is in the 70s

in so cal

But there is no global warming, so stop saying that

:sarcasm: