On Feb 4, 2012, at 6:01 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
> '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).
You know it's not about a one-way warming trend. It's about more volatile weather around rising average temperatures. More intense storms. More extremes. "Brrrr it's cold" is yahoo science.
Doug