ALPS WARMEST IN 1300 YEARS - AND THAT WAS BEFORE THE FOSSIL FUEL ERA

AP:

Europe's Alpine region is going through its warmest period in 1,300 years, the head of an extensive climate study said Tuesday. "We are currently experiencing the warmest period in the Alpine region in 1,300 years," Reinhard Boehm, a climatologist at Austria's Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics said.

Boehm based his comments on the results of a project conducted by a group of European institutes between March 2003 and August 2006. Their aim was to reconstruct the climate in the region encompassing the Rhone Valley in France to the west, Budapest, Hungary to the east, Tuscany, Italy to the south and Nuremberg, Germany to the north over the past 1,000 years.

Boehm said the current warm period in the Alpine region began in the 1980s, noting that a similar warming occurred in the 10th and 12th centuries.

Er um... ya mean it was as warm in the 8th and 10th and 12th centuries... BEFORE man-made greenhouse gases!?!?! A WHATTA?! I guess this means periodic global-warming can't be man-made OR DUE TO MAN-MADE GREENHOUSE GASES. IT'S NATURAL. END OF STORY. NOW: will the eco-nutsies please STFU.