More and more people are only dreaming of a “White Christmas” because of global warming.
That’s the conclusion by my colleague Erik Kirschbaum in a nice story from Berlin today about how climate change is making it less likely that people in the northern hemisphere will see snow at Christmas.
The picture above proves that this year there has been plenty of snow in some places — this snowman was pictured in Central Park, New York, on Dec. 19. According to one report, Canada may get its first country-wide white Christmas in four decades.
But the white Christmas is set to get ever rarer because of climate change.
And the UK Met Office says that a White Christmas isn’t necessarily even white any longer:
“For many a white Christmas means a complete covering of snow, ideally falling on the 25th. However, the definition of an official white Christmas used most widely, notably by those placing and taking bets, is for a single snow flake (perhaps amongst a shower of rain and snow mixed) to be observed falling in the 24 hours of 25 December.”)
So could climate change doom the White Christmas, especially if it’s just down to a single soggy snow flake?
What do you think?
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Have a happy new year everyone i have to go out and from all the snow and ice we just got…
Can’t wait to see the warming part of “global warming” here all we see is the cooling part of “global warming.”
The Farmers Almanac says that this year will be colder and have more snow then last year, i wounder what one will be right will it be warmer or colder here? but ether way global warming must be right because everyone knows it is… lets all jump on the global warming bandwagon and maybe they can come over to help dig us out.
- Posted by justinHere in Wisconsin we almost beat our december snowfall record. We had a record setting winter last year and are on track to do it agian this year. But don’t worry about record snowfalls it is a part of global warming…
- Posted by justinBefore you can ask if the current theory about global warming is correct you must first ask if it can be wrong. Global warming predicts both record high and low temps, the earth getting drier and more storms or less storms depending on the modle you use, it even predicts there being an ice age.
If they cannot agree on the outcome how can it be tested? A scientific theory must be testable, repeatable, and used to make predictions. Because of the size it cannot be repeated in the real world. the predictions that you would test are so veried that there is no way for it to be wrong. So it fails the simplest requirements of science but does fall under psudo-science.