Global Warming Melting The Alps...
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How balmy has it been in the Alps these last few months? At the bottom of the Hahnenkamm, the famously treacherous downhill course in this Austrian ski resort, the slope peters out into a grassy field. And it's just 10 days before Christmas.
Snow cannons are showering clouds of white crystals over the slopes, but by midmorning each day, the machines have to be turned off because the mercury has risen too far for the fake snow to stick.
The New York Times | MARK LANDLER | December 16, 2006 11:10 AM