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Remember back to 2000 when The Independent, another UK news outlet, declared that snow was a thing of the past and that “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”. Well, of course that prognostication didn’t materialize, so The Independent memory holed it, but, it led to lots of meme and derision. Now, the BBC gives it a shot

Climate change: Snowy UK winters could become thing of the past

Snowy winters could become a thing of the past as climate change affects the UK, Met Office analysis suggests.

It is one of a series of projections about how UK’s climate could change, shared with BBC Panorama.

It suggests by the 2040s most of southern England could no longer see sub-zero days. By the 2060s only high ground and northern Scotland are still likely to experience such cold days.

The projections are based on global emissions accelerating.

It could mean the end of sledging, snowmen and snowball fights, says Dr Lizzie Kendon, a senior Met Office scientist who worked on the climate projections.

“We’re saying by the end of the century much of the lying snow will have disappeared entirely except over the highest ground,” she told Panorama.

Oh, good, projections of doom 20, 40, and 80 years out. What happens when they fail to pan out? Right, nothing, because no one will remember these cult prognostications. The idea is to scare people now to get them to give up their money, freedom, liberty, and choice. Hey, I wonder if the people in the news broadcasting this garbage ever considered that the Government control will effect them, too?

And, yes, the above picture was part of the article.

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This is rather a new one. I’m surprised it hasn’t spread around through the Credentialed Media climate cult members, as it is a ready made bit of scaremongering

‘Already in short supply’: How climate change could chip away at sleep health

climate change joke

In October 2015, Nick Obradovich was living in San Diego when an intense heatwave smothered Southern California, with temperatures spiking to 99 degrees during the day and hovering in the mid-70s at night — nearly eight degrees warmer than an average October.

“I was hot and grumpy,” he said. “I just wasn’t getting much sleep with the nights not getting as cool as they normally would be.”

Air conditioning?

With nighttime temperatures on the rise due to climate change, Obradovich, then a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, wondered if others were sleeping as poorly as he was, particularly people like him who didn’t have air conditioning. So he started digging through the data. Not only did he find a correlation between rising ambient temperatures and disturbed sleep among U.S. residents, but in a recent global analysis of sleep data from fitness band users, Obradovich and his colleagues also found people were sleeping less on unusually warm nights.

That rise is primarily happening in urbanized areas, known as the Urban Heat Island Effect, which is a local issue, not global

So far, the amount of sleep people are losing to hotter temperatures remains minimal. But it’s a problem some experts predict will likely get worse in the years to come — and warrants attention sooner rather than later.

See, it’s not really happening, but, doom is coming soon! The rest of the article attempts to prove that Doom will be coming soon. We can fix this with a tax and a lockdown, right?

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