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...addressing "those forces for global change, such as population growth, the ; impact of technology, environmental damage and migration, which were transnational in nature." Perhaps a more modest scholar than Kennedy might have responded that he was, for all his erudition, primarily a historian and not an agronomist, a climatologist or a demographer...
...Climatologist Robert E. Lautzenheiser says despite a spat of warm winters and low snowfall totals, statistics show no signs of long-term warming...
...Alpine outing, how did the Iceman perish? And what was he doing so high in the mountains? To Egg, the evidence suggests that the Iceman could have been a shepherd, part of a group tending sheep or cattle. Ekkehard Dreiseitel, a University of Innsbruck climatologist, agrees. "We know the weather 5,000 years ago was somewhat warmer. The pasturage in the high Alps ((above the tree line)) would have been tempting in the summer, since it requires no clearing of the forest." Because the ax resembles those found in Stone Age settlements near Brescia, Italy, Egg suggests that the Iceman...
...degrees C temperature, the Iceman lay undisturbed for more than 53 centuries. And centuries more might have passed before he was discovered were it not for a foehn that last year delivered tons of North African desert sand to the Alpine ridges. "This is a common phenomenon," explains climatologist Dreiseitel, "but in 1991 it coincided with a winter that produced little snow, and the coating of sand increased the rate of melt on the high peaks." All over the Alps that summer, glaciers retreated -- including Similaun. Even then, it was only by chance that the world learned of the Iceman...
Predicting the weather is, in the best of circumstances, a game of chance. Even with the most powerful supercomputers, forecasters will never be able to see ahead more than a couple of weeks with any accuracy. Climatologist Stephen Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research compares the typical weather forecast to guessing what bumpers a pinball will hit after it has left the flipper. "What's happening now," he says, "is we're tilting the machine in several directions at once...