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Independent Declares ‘Snowfalls A Thing Of The Past’: Snow Falls Like Cocaine

by | 8th, January 2010

15516657TODAY the Indepedent declares that Britain is an “ICE LAND” . And you can take part:

It’s still snowing in the UK, and we’d like to see your pictures of the beauty, the carnage and all the other effects of the extreme weather across the country.

But it can’t be snow. It can’t. Because in 2000, the Indy reported:

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past

Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: 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.

You can’t argue with the science:

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.

If it can’t be snow – what can it be? He knows:



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