Posted on 10/31/2019 2:37:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Independent, 2000:
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
Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community
According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit 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.
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Weather patterns have always changed and they will continue to change for many reasons such as how the sun is behaving. We are a mere dot compared to the sun.
My grandchildren woke to snow outside of Chicago...6 inches....on Halloween. This after they experienced their first snow earlier this year...six inches...three days AFTER the first day of Spring...
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