Posted on 09/17/2014 11:01:55 AM PDT by goldstategop
One of the scientists behind the document, Helga Kromp-Kolb from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, told Austria's ORF TV that the above-average increases in temperature were due to Austria's landlocked position and its sensitive Alpine regions.
"We are a continental area, which gives us a higher rise in temperature and… we are in a mountain region where the decrease in snow cover intensifies the warming process", she said.
The report says that in the last 130 years, sunshine in the Alps has increased by approximately 20%.
It says that snow cover, particularly at mid-altitude elevations, has declined, and that there has been a clear reduction in the surface of Austria's glaciers.
Rises in temperature, it says, have accelerated since 1980.
"Cold nights have become rarer, but hot days have become more common."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Meanwhile in Switzerland they have had a cooler and wetter summer than normal...
“The report says that in the last 130 years, sunshine in the Alps has increased by approximately 20%.”
THAT would seem to be a result of lower precipitation and concurrent lower cloud cover, which can be related to changes in prevailing winds as much as anything else, and may or may not be directly related to “global” temperature. AND less cloud cover and less precipitation WOULD translate to some shrinkage of Austrian Alpine glaciers - again, irrespective of “global” temperatures.
"Climate Resilience" is the given reason why "Global Climate Change" has not killed us all yet. That and the fact that Our Glorious Leader was inaugurated as Supreme Leader for Life, which of course was "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
Of course, there is only so much that even The Won can do to save us from Bush and those damned SUVs.
That is why I leave the clock on my VCR blinking.
Someday, I am going to have to break down and get me one of those newfangled DVD players.
He’s Swiss!
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