[lbo-talk] Europe freezes

[James Heartfield]

'the current cold snap reminds us how rare such events have become... with every year the chances of another one recede...  I might never skate outdoors again' wrote George Monbiot, Guardian 9 January 2009. In March 2000, David Viner of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit said that  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 (Independent, 20 March 2000).