"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"
"within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,"
"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'."
Sorry but no.
The first two are from David Viner, director of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, the second is from David Parker of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, and the 3rd is from an unnamed researcher at Hadley.
"within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,"
"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'."
Sorry but no.
The first two are from David Viner, director of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, the second is from David Parker of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, and the 3rd is from an unnamed researcher at Hadley.