Global warming hits Mississippi and Kentucky in 2000 mile wide winter storm, March 5, 2015, 15 years after taxpayer funded, UK government endorsed senior climate scientist assured the world, "snowfalls are now just a thing of the past, children aren't going to know what snow is"

Above image caption: "Iced over: Cleo Driver walks down an ice covered University Avenue in Oxford, Mississippi as she battles the cold and snow," AP

Above image caption: "Nationwide: Sleet and ice cover the ground as a jogger runs past the Grove, in Oxford, Mississippi as the country battles another snow storm," AP




















 
Above image caption: "Stranded: Some of the drivers have been stuck on the I-65 (Kentucky) for more than 12 hours and are foraging for food on the side of the road," CNN

Above image caption: "Tiffany Buckler walks on Main Street instead of the snow-covered sidewalks, as she makes her way to work in Lexington, Ky., on Thursday, March 5, 2015. The governor's office has declared a state of emergency after Lexington and Central Kentucky received as much as 14 inches of snow as a winter storm moved through the region on Wednesday night and into Thursday," AP
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3/5/15, "Hundreds of stranded drivers forced to FORAGE for food after being stuck in thick snow on Kentucky highway for more than 12 HOURS in 2,000 mile wide winter storm," Reuters via UK Daily Mail 

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March 20, 2000, "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past," Independent UK, by Charles Onians 

"According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event."

"Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said....But very little research has been done on the cultural implications of climate change - into the possibility, for example, that our notion of Christmas might have to shift....David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Berkshire, says ultimately, British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes - or eventually "feel" virtual cold.

Heavy snow will return occasionally, says Dr Viner, but when it does we will be unprepared. "We're really going to get caught out. Snow will probably cause chaos in 20 years time," he said.
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The chances are certainly now stacked against the sort of heavy snowfall in cities that inspired Impressionist painters, such as Sisley, and the 19th century poet laureate Robert Bridges, who wrote in "London Snow" of it, "stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying". Not any more, it seems."