Sunday, January 2, 2011

The end of snow?

My friend Randy sent me this article from 2000:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html


I thought it was fun with the recent blizzards and other major snow storms all over the place. My favorite part of the article was this part:

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.

Hopefully the guy who wrote this article and the scientists he quoted are all much happier now that it appears to be snowing just fine.

2 comments:

Mary Lynn said...

Ah, but said article appears to be from Great Britain. How is THEIR snowfall these days?

Quintuplet Dad said...

Their snow is worse than average lately and doesn't show any sign of disappearing any time soon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_2010%E2%80%932011_in_Great_Britain_and_Ireland