No Winter for Europe
Warmest Autumn in Forever: No Winter for Europe – International – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News
Central Europe is experiencing its warmest winter in 500 years and the Alps haven’t been this warm in over a millenneum. Ski resorts are suffering, as are the bears.
Only two weeks before the official start of winter, Europe is sweating. An unusually warm autumn — which was last week credited for Germany’s fourth quarter economic surge — is forcing ski resorts to market hiking holidays, and bears to seek out places cold enough to hibernate…
…Reinhard Böhm, a climatologist at Austria’s Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, says Europe’s Alps are warmer today than anytime in the past 1,300 years.
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