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one 2000: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past By Charles Onians Monday, 20 March 2000 Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters - which scientists are attributing to global climate change - produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries. The first two months of 2000 were virtually free of significant snowfall in much of lowland Britain, and December brought only moderate snowfall in the South-east. It is the continuation of a trend that has been increasingly visible in the past 15 years: in the south of England, for instance, from 1970 to 1995 snow and sleet fell for an average of 3.7 days, while from 1988 to 1995 the average was 0.7 days. London's last substantial snowfall was in February 1991. Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community. Then this happened: Could Met Office have been more wrong? Just before floods, report told councils: Winter will be 'drier than normal' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2564358/Could-Met-Office-wrong-Just-floods-report-told-councils-Winter-drier-normal-especially-West-Country.html two 2004: It's just getting too hot for the Scottish ski industry Gerard Seenan Sat 14 Feb 2004 02.50 GMT "Unfortunately, it's just getting too hot for the Scottish ski industry," said David Viner, of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. "It is very vulnerable to climate change; the resorts have always been marginal in terms of snow and, as the rate of climate change increases, it is hard to see a long-term future." Adam Watson, from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, believes the industry has no more than 20 years left. Glencoe became Scotland's first commercial ski resort when its chairlifts opened in 1956. It covers 200 hectares (500 acres) and has some of the country's best snowboarding runs. Viner and Watson must have been surprised to see the BBC report that Scottish mountains may be their snowiest since 1945. Most snow in hills in 69 years, says Hamish MacInnes https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-26339994 three In the late 2000s, Al Gore made a series of high-profile but incorrect statements suggesting the possibility that Arctic sea ice could be completely gone during the summer by around 2013 or 2014. Snopes: "What's True: In the late 2000s, Al Gore made a series of high-profile statements suggesting the possibility that Arctic sea ice could be completely gone during the summer by around 2013 or 2014." What's False: Gore did not himself make these predictions but said (in some cases erroneously) that others had. NPR: "Al Gore Slips On Artic Ice" Like most politicians, practicing and reformed, Al Gore has been known to stretch the truth on occasion. Like the time he said in 1999, "During my time in the U.S. Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." So it's not surprising that he played it a bit fast and loose during a speech he gave at the Copenhagen climate-change conference with a global-warming prediction a scientist provided to his office. Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years. In his speech, Mr Gore told the conference: "These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years." However, the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast. "It's unclear to me how this figure was arrived at," Dr Maslowski said. "I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this." But in 2013, Arctic sea ice coverage was up 50 percent from 2012 levels. Data from Europe’s Cryosat spacecraft showed that Arctic sea ice coverage was nearly 2,100 cubic miles by the end of this year’s melting season, up from about 1,400 cubic miles during the same time last year. 2014 NASA AntarcticMax: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum 2015 CBC Glacier: Hubbard Glacier defies climate change, continues advancing http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/hubbard-glacier-defies-climate-change-continues-advancing-1.3106914 2015 CBC Ice: The newest government marine navigation maps show more Arctic sea ice than its predecessor, despite warnings about global warming accelerating the loss of sea ice. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/arctic-sea-ice-gains-can-be-seen-on-new-government-map-of-canada-1.3036224 2019 Global Icebreakers: Canada doubles Icebreaker fleet https://globalnews.ca/news/5333995/canadian-coast-guard-new-icebreaker/ 2019 Greenland: Key Greenland glacier growing again after shrinking for years, NASA study shows https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/key-greenland-glacier-growing-again-after-shrinking-years-nasa-study-ncna987116

four 2013: An end to spring snowfalls. WASHINGTON (March 19, 2013) – Warmer springs are leading to declines in snow cover, changes to species’ biological clockwork, and longer and more intense allergy seasons, according to scientists who spoke at a telephone press conference convened by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) earlier today. But the record levels of snowfall to hit this year may have caught UCS off guard. On Monday, the U.S. east coast was hit with a massive snowstorm that stretched for 1,300 miles and those in the Baltimore-D.C. area were hit with a 141-year record cold of 4 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday morning. “Many places tied or broke record lows all over the Eastern half of the U.S.,” reported CBS Baltimore. http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2014/03/04/maryland-braces-for-yet-another-round-of-brutal-cold/ five 2014: The end of skiing. Will the nation’s booming ski-towns ultimately go bust? Decades from now, will climate change, predicted to make winters feel more like thermostats on the fritz, turn destinations such as Aspen, Vail, and Lake Tahoe into Flint, Cleveland and Poughkeepsie? “It’s the single greatest threat to our local economy,” says Steven Skadron, mayor of Aspen, Colo., where one overnight storm helped plow crews create a “Mt. City Hall” outside his office, only to be followed by temperatures in the 40s the next day. “We’re very concerned.” The town of Loveland, Colorado got more than 300 inches of snow this winter, reports CBS Denver, adding that with “snow continuing to pile up at ski areas many are putting this winter in their top 10.” For Loveland, 300 inches is still below normal, but a far cry from the end of snowy winters. Loveland Ski Area Surpasses 300 Inches Of Snow https://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/03/02/loveland-ski-area-surpasses-300-inches-of-snow/ six Snow forms 20-meter hills in the SME area and is unlikely to have time to melt during the summer: the metropolitan area has had the snowiest winter in ten years. The metropolitan area has received so much snow this winter that it is unlikely to have time to melt completely during the summer. Snow is likely to remain at least in snow dumps, which currently have snow mountains tens of meters high. In Uusimaa, there was 1.7 times more snow in January than usual in January, says Foreca. AT THE SNOW RECEPTION PLACE In Herttoniemi, Helsinki, the snow mountain has already risen to a height of almost 20 meters. Similarly, a lot of snow has accumulated at the Maununneva snow dump. A total of 26,000 loads of snow have been dumped there during the winter, says production manager Tero Koppinen from the Helsinki Construction Agency in Stara. During the winter, 16,000 loads of snow have been taken to the Herttoniemi snow dump.