Global Warming Hysteria: 2000–English Children Will Not Know Snow–2010: Oops, Nevermind! » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Thanks to the Drudge Report for this: In 2000, a warming scientist from East Anglia, Dr. David Viner, went way out on a limb and said there would soon be no more snow in England.
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See, that’s what trying to panic people with GWH gets you: By making dire predictions you cannot know to be true, you can easily end up looking very foolish. There’s some juicy justice in that comeuppance.

Europe hit by record snow, cold

BERLIN: Frankfurt airport, Germany’s busiest, cancelled more than 540 flights on Sunday due to heavy snowfall, which has created chaos throughout the European air traffic network, a spokeswoman said.
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More than 1,000 stranded passengers had to spend the night on beds set up in the airport terminals, some for a second night in a row, while others found rooms in nearby hotels.