ClimateWire: Greece has a long history of recording climate variations. There are centuries-old tales of heat waves, droughts and floods striking the region -- often thought to be at the hand of a spurned god or goddess.
"These climate changes are known, but they were, of course, not man-made. Now we are concerned about man-made warming," said Christos Zerefos, a professor at the Academy of Athens Research Centre for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology.
St. Paul's Church, a 10th-century monument in southern...