To: Brumar89 who wrote (900551 ) 11/13/2015 1:00:29 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (3) | Respond to "Children won't know snow..." famous failed prediction disappeared by Climate Lysenkoists: Anthony Watts 17 hours ago November 12, 2015 Dr. David Viner of the Climatic Research Unit who famously said: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past However, the warming is so far manifesting itself more in winters which are less cold than in much hotter summers. 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. It seems however, that after over 15 years, the Independent has removed that article, and the URL now comes up like this:Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – The Independent One wonders about the timing, whether it is related to the upcoming COP21 climate confab in Paris , or if it was simply some blunder, oversight, or archive purge on the part of The Independent.Cole Pritchard Update: It gets curiouser, searching on The Independent website using their search engine for the phrase “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past” story lambasting the original article that contained the phrase when I remove the quote marks to search for the phrase in general, and not exactly other stories back as far as 1994 about global warming and snow appear: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/11/12/one-of-the-longest-running-climate-prediction-blunders-has-disappeared-from-the-internet/
