tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893698629458358623.post6456142906224163471..comments2024-02-26T19:19:32.362+00:00Comments on Not a sheep: Climate scientists know...Not a sheephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14123293202225008273noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893698629458358623.post-78099667975104392762010-11-29T18:05:04.938+00:002010-11-29T18:05:04.938+00:00Funnily enough he has, in January of this year,
ht...Funnily enough he has, in January of this year,<br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html<br /><br /><br />In March 2000, Dr David Viner, then a member of the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, the body now being investigated over the notorious ‘Warmergate’ leaked emails, said that within a few years snowfall would become ‘a very rare and exciting event’ in Britain, and that ‘children just aren’t going to know what snow is’. <br />Now the head of a British Council programme with an annual £10 million budget that raises awareness of global warming among young people abroad, Dr Viner last week said he still stood by that prediction: ‘We’ve had three weeks of relatively cold weather, and that doesn’t change anything. <br /><br />'This winter is just a little cooler than average, and I still think that snow will become an increasingly rare event.’ <br />The longer the cold spell lasts, the harder it may be to persuade the public of that assertion.Gawain Towlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08583658895528269901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893698629458358623.post-38915599010968140462010-11-29T15:57:45.408+00:002010-11-29T15:57:45.408+00:00There were lots of critical comments, including on...There were lots of critical comments, including one of my own, on that Independent article until they removed the lot.Katabasishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059375486530788092noreply@blogger.com