{"id":1203,"date":"2006-12-20T04:50:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T12:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2006-12-20T04:50:04","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T12:50:04","slug":"washpost-in-balmy-europe-feverish-choruses-of-let-it-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/20\/washpost-in-balmy-europe-feverish-choruses-of-let-it-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"WashPost: In Balmy Europe, Feverish Choruses of &#8216;Let It Snow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/19\/AR2006121901681_pf.html\"><i>The Washington Post<\/i><\/a>:<br \/>\n<i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moscow is not alone in the unexpected warmth &#8212; it stretches across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary data from the Met Office, Britain&#8217;s national weather service, and the University of East Anglia indicate that 2006 has been the warmest year in Britain since record-keeping concerning weather conditions began in central England in 1659.<\/p>\n<p>Trees are sprouting leaves in Switzerland. And low-altitude ski resorts across the Alps look more like springtime meadows. &#8220;We are currently experiencing the warmest period in the Alpine region in 1,300 years,&#8221; Reinhard Boehm, a climatologist at Austria&#8217;s Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, told the Associated Press in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>Boehm was one of the authors of a European Union-funded climate study that found similar warming periods in the 10th and 12th centuries. But, he said, it&#8217;s warmer now, and &#8220;it will undoubtedly get warmer in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warns in a report this month &#8220;that climate change poses serious risks to the snow reliability of Alpine ski areas, and consequently to the regional economies that depend upon winter tourism.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post: Moscow is not alone in the unexpected warmth &#8212; it stretches across the continent. Preliminary data from the Met Office, Britain&#8217;s national weather service, and the University of East Anglia indicate that 2006 has been the warmest year in Britain since record-keeping concerning weather conditions began in central England in 1659. Trees are sprouting leaves in Switzerland. And low-altitude ski resorts across the Alps look more like springtime meadows. &#8220;We are currently experiencing the warmest period in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[205,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-weather","category-wtf","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-jp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}