Might be of interested to SP members.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061205/ap_ ... ng_in_alps
Not meant to be a P&P dabate-type post, but I thought it was interesting.
by Scott » Tue Dec 05, 2006 6:48 pm
by Moni » Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:31 am
by MoapaPk » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:38 am
Moni wrote:In the June, 2004, edition of the "Die Alpen", the offical magazine of the Swiss Alpine Club, there was anarticle that detailed research in Switzerland that established that when Hannibal was crossing the Alps with his elephants, the Alps were much warmer than today and had actually few glaciers. How? By the tree trunks and other things that are coming exposed by the currently receding glaciers. There has been apparently a regular cycle of warming to the point of few European glaciers that has lasted anywhere from 100 to 1800 years. So is this present "global warming" caused or accelerated by humans or is this part of a cycle that is actually a precursor to the next mini or full ice age soon to come? Stay tuned...
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