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New Scientist: "Victorian skiing holidays melted Alpine glaciers"
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Err ...

Victorian skiing holidays melted Alpine glaciers
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24136-victorian-skiing-holidays-melted-alpine-glaciers.html#.UiWuUX9q3IU
Quote:
Victorian skiing holidays to Europe may be partially to blame for the rapid retreat of glaciers in the Alps during the mid-19th century. From 1865, Alpine glaciers started to shrink to lengths not seen in the previous 500 years, a trend that continues today ...soot particles from increased rail transport, the booming tourist industry and coal fires – all brought about by the budding industrial revolution – are to blame, especially from coal burned on the doorstep of the Alps.


... Victorian skiing holidays, as such (there would not have been many), didn't get going until 55-60 years into the reign of Queen Victoria. She came to the throne, as all snowHeads will know, in 1837. Alpine skiing didn't really exist as a recreation - and then only for a select few adventurous types like Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle - until the mid-1890s.

Perhaps New Scientist should stick to the science!

Here's a fuller and better treatment of this glacier-melting theory, by The Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/layers-of-soot-from-coal-burning-melted-alpine-glaciers-even-in-cooler-climate-of-the-19th-century-8795396.html
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Comedy Goldsmith wrote:
and then only for a select few adventurous types like Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle - until the mid-1990s.



Similar skiing "career" length to you then Comedy Goldsmith.

Toofy Grin

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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Eagle-eyed Cacciatore is correct. That's what I originally typed ... and edited the error while he was correcting the error.

My career length, incidentally, is currently 205cm.

Can we return to the subject at hand, please: people burning Victorian skis and polluting the Victorian atmosphere.
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