Mountains eroding? Global Warming? Italy's three hottest Junes of the past 250 years?

Maybe due to the stones porosity under pressure, therefor permitting larger pieces to be "leavened" from the mountain "mass" because in a warmer summer the water penetrates deeper into the micro-fractured rock, freezing and expanding in winter, and then collapsing in the following summer due to the thawing of the ice riddled rock faces?

Science does not support the global warming hoax. We have time. Study the problem from both sides - if you don't believe me, ask the guys who signed this petition:

More than 31,000 American scientists have signed onto a petition that states, "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate…" http://www.petitionproject.org/index.html

Unseasonably cold? Doesn't sound like global warming to me.

Now they're trying to blame global warming on the erosion of mountains? Mountains and rocks are supposed to break down, they've been doing it for millions of years.

But if the collapsing is occurring, who says this should not take several million years? Sometimes things take place in a very short amount of time, whether it's rocks or climate.

This is the kind of garbage article that completely undermines the scientific credibility of the global warming discussion!

It is a fine example of how a very minuscule kernel of truth can be spun into sensationalistic trash! Of course swings in hot and cold can cause thermal erosion, it happens every day and everywhere! You are talking about absolutely imperceptible swings in temperature on a global basis somehow effecting erosion. Is this guy nutz! I think he got his geology degree at the university of Bologna...as part of a sandwich. I don't know the specifics of the particular rock collapses that this idiot is talking about but I can be pretty certain that the erosive collapse of ANY solid rock formations began well before recorded human history. The process that he describes takes millions of years of exfoliation. Unless this area had been subject to a fairly major earthquake and is undergoing erosion into the subsequent fractures (which usually still takes millions of years unless a rock face is beyond its slope of instability), erosion has IN PRACTICE nothing to do with Global Warming.

Like most "science" in the GW debate, it is not truly a matter of the facts, it is the significance in absolute terms of the mechanisms involved. If I trip on my way upstairs it wil be due to global warming, because my carpet was too warm and the loss of friction is what caused my fall! This is the lind of insanity that is being listened to by government!

It scares the crap out if me and it should scare the crap out of every citizen!

EDIT: Thank you for your civility. I am a geologist and this sort of mixing of apples and oranges is really bothersome. Coastal erosion is a completely different issue and is a function of basin subsidence and/or rising sea level. Active deltaic discharge areas are continually subsiding at variable rates. Even a very minor 2-3mm rise in sea level will cause coastal erosion of barrier island complexes and delta front sands. These are unconsolidated sediments and are continually being eroded and redeposited. One good hurricane and poof the delta or barrier island can be destroyed. I have posted numerous pieces on the imminent coastal erosion of Mississipi delta locations and Bangladesh. It is absolutely inevitable that both of these and all delta areas will be destroyed by the Transgression that began in the Holocene and is continuing at a slow pace today.

The Mississippi dalta area has literally thousands of feet of delta fronts deposited over older delta fronts and so on! The delta lobe gets destroyed and switches flow to a new lobe with rising seas. There are old cottages on the Brazos delta in Texas that are now out at sea by 1-2 miles because of rising sea level. Remember that sea level was 100-145 meters lower some 11,500 years ago. That puts the average sea level rise at 1.26 centimeters per year. Yes it mostly occured in the first 300 years of the Transgression but don't confuse quiesence with dormancy. Warming (and sea level rise) is continuing at a much slower rate today then back in those 1st 3000 years but it is warming and will get much warmer with or without CO2. We geologists generally don't name our Geological Epochs for an anticipated 3000 year time frame. We pick the time frame to last at least 5 million years! Lots of things happen along the way such as the Little Ice Age, but the Earth cools and warms at its own pace.

You are out in left field, this is not a question and should be deleted like you do to so many others here that post. Freak weather. Oh, there has never been any freak weather in the past? How silly you sound. Oh, by the way, mountains have been eroding for the milenia. Why do you think the mountains look the way they do. Ever hear of wind and water erosion. It is what shaped much of our planet.

Cry somewhere else on your hoax.

True that, looks like the arctic is melting more and more every year, i was just watching a documentary on polar bears and they seem to be in a struggle with the warming process, this is not a good sign as the ice is melting and water is rising. ON TOPIC: i dont think 2006 was hottest summer.. hell no.

Unseasonably cold and snowy winter...

Right. Sounds like global warming.

Meanwhile Massachusetts just had its 10th coldest June on record.

Call it weather, call it climate, just don't call X amount of warming climate and X amount of cooling weather.

250 years ago we were in an event know as the little ice age. So saying the hottest June in 250 years is not saying much.

But when events like these occur "Frost in July hits P.E.I" http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/stor... and "FREAK SUMMER STORM DUMPS SNOW ON YONKERS (NY)" http://www.nypost.com/seven/07082009/news/regional... you keep telling us we are confusing weather with climate.

So my answer is you "are confusing weather with climate."

This is just more food for people who can't sort out science from sensationalism.

yeah. i can see that. very bad don't let that stuff happen anymore.