The Alps defy global warming - but no one wants to hear it!

Meteorologist Dominik Young writing at the German Huffington Post site:

• "The data shows winter in the Alps has become clearly colder in the last decades. We have examined an extra-long time series of 20 to 30 years, just as is always demanded by the climatologists." 
• "This begs the question: If we know these results, will they just not listen because they do not fit into the current world view of climate change or global warming? The climate experts 20 years ago preached that there would be no more future winters with ice and snow in Central Europe. In addition, they said winter sports would be possible only in the highest regions of the Alps, as the temperatures would continue to rise. But none of this has been the case"
• "To me it seems as if the issue of climate change or global warming has now become a kind of religion. Those who belong tolerate no other findings when they are based on even the facts such as these measured temperature values. It borders almost on a scandal that competent professionals just seem to ignore these findings."
• "Conclusion: For mild winters, we are obviously far away in the Alps. The trend is moving in exactly the opposite direction!"

Google translation + light editing from the German Huffington Post site:




Dominik Young Meteorologist at wetter.net

The Alps defy global warming - but no one wants to hear it!

Published: 21/11/2013 

Subjectively, there were the inhabitants of the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel in recent years so ago, when the winter would be colder. In order to gain an objective picture of the situation, we went out and ordered at the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG), the state weather service in Austria, the appropriate weather data for the last 20 years. In assessing the data and results I was of MMag. Günther Aigner, Marketer at Kitzbühel Tourismus, provided technical support.

The evaluation has amazing result:

According to a peer review for my part I am very surprised. The winters there in the last 20 years have proven colder, and sometimes quite massively. The last two winters in Kitzbühel were even the coldest of the past 20 years.

In order to make further investigations were requested and evaluated by a further four alpine mountain weather:

· Germany Zugspitze (2,962 m)

· Schmittenhoehe Austria (1,972 m)

· Sonnblick Austria (3,105 m)

· Santis Switzerland (2,502 m)

They all came to the same amazing result:

The data shows winter in the Alps has become clearly colder in the last decades. We have examined an extra-long time series of 20 to 30 years, just as is always demanded by the climatologists.
They even questioned the meteorological professionals on site according to their opinions on the results. However, this had little success. In some cases it was even surprised by these results, in part, attempts the results were put into perspective.

This begs the question: If we know these results, will they just not listen because they do not fit into the current world view of climate change or global warming? The climate experts 20 years ago preached that there would be no more future winters with ice and snow in Central Europe. In addition, winter sports would be possible in the coming decades only in the highest regions of the Alps, as the temperatures would continue to rise. But none of this has been the case, as this observational data from official monitoring networks of the German Weather Service (Zugspitze), the ZAMG (Kitzbühel, Sundays views and Schmitt height) and the MeteoSwiss prove (Santis) impressive.

To me it seems as if the issue of climate change or global warming has now become a kind of religion. Those who belong tolerate no other findings when they are based on even the facts such as those measured temperature values. It borders almost on a scandal that competent professionals just seem to ignore these findings. 

Conclusion:

For mild winters, we are obviously far away in the Alps. The trend is moving in exactly the opposite direction! Climatologists had advised a few years ago the winter sports resorts of the Alps to their investment in terms of winter sports back down-that would not be worth it due to the rising average temperatures soon.

It makes you wonder: what rising temperatures meant the men and women merely?

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