Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past,” shouted the headline on March 20, 2000.
“Snow is starting to disappear from our lives,” the article began.
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.
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.
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”.
I’m guessing that the people trapped in the snow in Buffalo may not quite agree with Mr. Viner and Mr. Parker.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
Thanks to Jim Shepherd and many, many others for reminding me of this prediction. It is almost criminal how misguided some of the global warming predictions were – and still are.
