Read here. Another failed C-AGW prediction is documented. In this case, alarmists predicted that mountain avalanches would increase due to human CO2-induced warming. Turns out this prediction was the same as others: just bogus speculation.
As the intense scientific research continues, every global warming catastrophic prediction is proving to be wrong - the evidence simply does not support the AGW disaster scenarios, including avalanches, per a recent peer-reviewed research study.
"Eckert et al. compared a number of different ways of analyzing snow avalanche data contained in the Enquete Permanente sur les Avalanches -- EPA, which they say "is a chronicle describing the avalanche events on approximately 5,000 determined paths in the French Alps and the Pyrenees.".....The four researchers report that after they had essentially analyzed the data to death, they could find "no strong modifications in mean avalanche activity or in the number of winters of low or high activity over the last 60 years." In addition, they say that "a similar result was obtained for Switzerland over the second half of the twentieth century by Laternser and Schneebeli (2002) using avalanche indexes and comparison with meteorological data." They also report that "Schneebeli et al. (1997) and Bader and Kunz (2000) have seen no change in extreme snowfalls and in the associated number of catastrophic avalanches around Davos, Switzerland during the twentieth century," and that "in the Maurienne Valley in France, Jomelli et al. (2007) found no correlation between the fluctuations in avalanche activity between 1978 and 2003 and large-scale atmospheric patterns." And in one final study that had a slightly different result, they note that Jomelli and Pech (2004) "suggest that at low altitudes, avalanche magnitude has declined since 1650 in the Massif des Ecrins in the French Alps." [Eckert, N., Parent, E., Kies, R. and Baya, H. 2010.]
Additional peer-reviewed postings. Other severe weather postings.