Flakey comment about snow but great photo

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 in Britain would become ...

“… a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he told The Independent in March 2000..

Flash forward 10 years:

This striking image taken by Nasa's Terra satellite on 7 January shows the UK deep in the clutches of the current “cold snap”.




Dr David Viner is now head of the British Council's climate change program where he encourages young people (Dec 2009) to get involved in negotiations designed to save the world.