Never let the facts get in the way of a good story....
Of course they melted faster then ... there was a war on, right? All those bullets and stuff blowing up .... </sarc
As an aside, during the Battle of the Bulge and the Huertgen Forest (The latter took place between September 19, 1944, and February 10, 1945, over barely 50 square miles), Europe was under the densest blanket of fog seen in hundreds of years.
This precluded air power during these extended fights, and reduced visibility from a few hundred yards to just a foot or two at times. Some major unit encounters had to be fought hand to hand, with knives and pistols, because until you were face to face with someone else, you could not tell if they were friend or foe.
The most recent studies by researchers at ETH Zurich show that in the 1940s Swiss glaciers were melting at an even-faster pace than at present. This is despite the fact that the temperatures in the 20th century were lower than in this century. Researchers see the main reason for this as the lower level of aerosol pollution in the atmosphere.Thanks Free ThinkerNY.
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Obviously due to the greater number of SUV’s on Swiss interstates in the Alps at that time.
