Global warming threatens to melt the glaciers in the Alps

Due to global warming, alpine glaciers are melting over the next hundred years. With a forecast of the leading international experts in the field of glaciology (the study of ice), which publishes the results in the Italian press Saturday. According to the International Service for the observation of glaciers, if the heating rate of 21 century will remain the same as in the XX-XX, and rising global average temperature of air is 3 degrees Celsius, glaciers in the Alpine region covered by three quarters. If the increase in temperature by 5 degrees, melting alpine glaciers and ice is almost completely preserved in some mountain regions. Even in the optimistic scenario, if global warming is just a title in the next 100 years, the IPCC, 40%, respectively. According to the researchers, glaciers in the Alps and around the world, the reduction of half a century. In 1850 was the face of the glacier in the Alps 4,474 km ² in 1970 to 2,902 square kilometers, and between 2000 and 2272 square kilometers. Scientists warn that the disappearance of glaciers will have serious implications for the alpine areas of the economy that depends heavily on tourism has the mountain. See