That Pause ...

[pjclarke]

Such as this?

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past - Environment - The Independent

Exactly that! Written by a correspondent more used to covering business stories, the headline does not reflect the content and the money quote 'within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event"' is a conflation of a real scientist's words and those of the journalist. No IPCC report or published study then or now is or was predicting any such thing. Still, 14 years after it was published, here it is again.

[DodgyAgent]

Exactly that! Written by a correspondent more used to covering business stories, the headline does not reflect the content and the money quote 'within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event"' is a conflation of a real scientist's words and those of the journalist. No IPCC report or published study then or now is or was predicting any such thing. Still, 14 years after it was published, here it is again.

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".

Ah so we are smearing the journalist now . So those were not the words of David Viner then? Or is it perfectly acceptable for scientists to make false conclusions as long as they are promoting "your" consensus?

[pjclarke]

'within a few years' were not Viner's words, we don't know what his timeframe was. I bet if he'd known this one phrase was to become the cornerstone of a denial campaign a decade later he'd have issued a clarification