Many meteorologists and scientists say that a single warm winter is all part of the natural variations of an unpredictable climate, but a new climatic survey has reported that Europe's Alpine region is now warmer than at any other time since the Middle Ages, so could the current conditions be a taste of things to come?

CNN: Alpine resorts feel the heat

He cited a study by a group of European climatic institutes that reconstructed more than a millennium of weather patterns in a region ranging from France's Rhone Valley in the west to Hungary in the east, and from Germany's Nuremberg area in the north to Italy's Tuscany in the south.

CNN: Alpine resorts feel the heat

This proposition is based both in climate-modeling results and the Region??s climate signs and trends evidencing that the above-mentioned factors are a climatic expression of the current conditions.

UNESCO: Climatic Change