This, from Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the Climatic Research Centre at the University of East Anglia:
“Within a few years winter snowfall in Britain will become a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”
March, 2000.
Ah, the joy of knowing the difference between climate and weather.

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