Alps Glaciers Will Melt By 2050, Experts Say
By Associated Press | January 23, 2007
VIENNA, Austria — Glaciers will all but disappear from the Alps by 2050, scientists warned yesterday, basing their bleak outlook on mounting evidence of slow but steady melting of the continental ice sheets.
In western Austria's Alpine province of Tyrol, glaciers have been shrinking by about 3% a year, meaning their mass decreases annually by roughly 3 feet, a professor at the University of Innsbruck's Institute for Ecology, Roland Psenner, said. Experts at a conference on the Alps stopped short of blaming global warming.
