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Extreme flooding threatens the future of ski resorts in the Alps, according to scientists at Exeter University. New research suggests that there is an increased risk of flooding in the European Alpine regions due to climate change because they are warming up faster than lower-lying region.
...A spokesman for the university said: "Temperatures in the Alps have increased at double the global average temperature since the late 19th century and are predicted to rise by an average of 3-5C per decade in the next century."
It is unknown what causes such extreme variations in climate change at local levels, but the researchers predict that global warming will cause ongoing and accelerating ice loss in the European Alps over the next decades and centuries.
The study's findings will be published in Science for Environment Policy published by the European Commission's DG Environment.
http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/news/West-scientists-ski-resorts-Alps-risk-extreme-flooding/article-2300778-detail/article.html
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| 3-5C per decade in the next century. |
What utter crap! That would equate to a temperature rise of at least +27c up to 45c!
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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?
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pam w, it's only a couple of years since heavy flooding of the Guisane and Durance rivers too. Several people swept to their deaths, many evacuated.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Very, very localised. All really focused on one small town , Draguignan.
About 35 mile from me and although yesterday was wet & miserable for June here .. but nothing like the carnage over there and ostensibly the winds were from this direction.
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If we're flooded I shall complain to the Mairie - we pay an anti-inondation tax of 6€ a year. 
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Jivebaby, water does indeed flow downhill but often fast enough and deep enough, to drown a lot of people on the way.
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| el Hen wrote: |
| Temperatures in the Alps have increased at double the global average |
You read that about a lot of regions. There must be an approximately equal number of regions where temperatures have not increased at all. Strange that you never read about them.
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FAQ
and likely to be skiing so perhaps I would care. 
