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Added: End of snow predicted 16 years ago by "expert." March 2000: "Senior scientist" says snow is becoming a thing of the past due to imaginary human caused global warming:
""Children just aren't going to know what snow is,"...according to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia."...
March 20, 2000, "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past," UK Independent, Charles Onians
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"Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
"Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of
waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly
diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters - which
scientists are attributing to global climate change - produce not only
fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries.
The
first two months of 2000 were virtually free of significant snowfall in
much of lowland Britain, and December brought only moderate snowfall in
the South-east. It is the continuation of a trend that has been
increasingly visible in the past 15 years: in the south of England, for
instance, from 1970 to 1995 snow and sleet fell for an average of 3.7
days, while from 1988 to 1995 the average was 0.7 days. London's last
substantial snowfall was in February 1991."...
[Ed. note: The
city of London and "the south of England" represent tiny fractions of
the planet. As such they're irrelevant as proof of anything "global"].
(continuing): "Global
warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of
industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international
community. Average temperatures in Britain were nearly 0.6°C higher in
the Nineties than in 1960-90, and it is estimated that they will
increase by 0.2C every decade over the coming century. Eight of the 10
hottest years on record occurred in the Nineties."...
[Ed. note: No links or substantiation provided]
[Ed. note: No links or substantiation provided]
(continuing): "However,
the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less
cold than in much hotter summers. 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. The
effects of snow-free winter in Britain are already becoming apparent.
This year, for the first time ever, Hamleys, Britain's biggest toyshop,
had no sledges on display in its Regent Street store. "It was a bit of a
first," a spokesperson said.
Fen skating, once a
popular sport on the fields of East Anglia, now takes place on indoor
artificial rinks. Malcolm Robinson, of the Fenland Indoor Speed Skating
Club in Peterborough, says they have not skated outside since 1997.
"As a
boy, I can remember being on ice most winters. Now it's few and far
between," he said.
Michael Jeacock, a
Cambridgeshire local historian, added that a generation was growing up
"without experiencing one of the greatest joys and privileges of living
in this part of the world - open-air skating".
Warmer
winters have significant environmental and economic implications, and a
wide range of research indicates that pests and plant diseases, usually
killed back by sharp frosts, are likely to flourish. 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.
Professor Jarich Oosten, an
anthropologist at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, says that
even if we no longer see snow, it will remain culturally important.
"We
don't really have wolves in Europe any more, but they are still an
important part of our culture and everyone knows what they look like,"
he said.
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.
[Ed. note: It's now 16 years into the "senior scientist's" 20 year prediction.]
(continuing): "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."
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https://web.archive.org/web/20091230061832/http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html.
Wayback Machine. (Original 2000 UK Independent link inactive as of 2/8/16.)
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