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Italians pack Speedos as Dolomites (alpine glacial) lake hit by soaring temperatures
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/23/italy-dolomite-glacier-melt[font face=Serif][font size=5]Italians pack Speedos as Dolomites lake hit by soaring temperatures[/font]
[font size=4]Glacial lake is usually icy cold even in summer, and efforts to halt Alpine glaciers melting considered to too little and too late[/font]
Tom Kington in Rome
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 23 August 2012 13.12 EDT
[font size=3]Mountain trekkers, packing essentials before heading for the glaciers in the Italian Dolomite mountains, are taking an extra piece of kit – swimming trunks.
As Italy sweats through a hot summer, climbers reaching 2,500 metres have been stripping off and plunging into the glacial lake at Antermoia, which is usually icy cold in August and frozen in the winter.
"The water is normally really cold and people just put their toe in, so it is amazing so many people up there this year are swimming," said Andrea Weiss, a tourism chief in the Val de Fassa area where the lake is situated.
With temperatures of 30C in the mountain resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy is getting a taste of climate change, said Luca Mercalli, the president of the Italian Meteorological Society. "This will probably be the second hottest summer after 2003, which was the hottest in 200 years. And we expect this to be the norm within 50 years."
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[font size=4]Glacial lake is usually icy cold even in summer, and efforts to halt Alpine glaciers melting considered to too little and too late[/font]
Tom Kington in Rome
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 23 August 2012 13.12 EDT
[font size=3]Mountain trekkers, packing essentials before heading for the glaciers in the Italian Dolomite mountains, are taking an extra piece of kit – swimming trunks.
As Italy sweats through a hot summer, climbers reaching 2,500 metres have been stripping off and plunging into the glacial lake at Antermoia, which is usually icy cold in August and frozen in the winter.
"The water is normally really cold and people just put their toe in, so it is amazing so many people up there this year are swimming," said Andrea Weiss, a tourism chief in the Val de Fassa area where the lake is situated.
With temperatures of 30C in the mountain resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy is getting a taste of climate change, said Luca Mercalli, the president of the Italian Meteorological Society. "This will probably be the second hottest summer after 2003, which was the hottest in 200 years. And we expect this to be the norm within 50 years."
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Speedos will bring home the threat of global warming
