 Poster: A snowHead
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The most detailed forecast of the world's snow pack to date has predicted that, by the year 2100, the Andes in South America will have lost more than half its current winter snow pack, mountains in Europe and the US will have lost nearly half of theirs, and snow on New Zealand's mountains will have almost vanished.
The forecast, from the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, comes from a new, century-long model that offers detail its authors call "an unprecedented picture of climate change."
... It shows that, less than 100 years from now, Alaska will have 64% of the snow pack it had in 2000, the Alps will have 61%, Scandinavia 56%, the Sierras, Cascades and southern Rockies 57%, the Andes 45%, and Mount Cook in New Zealand only 16%.
The study appears in the Journal of Climate.
http://ams.allenpress.com/pdfserv/10.1175%2FJCLI3701.1
http://ams.allenpress.com/pdfserv/10.1175%2FJCLI3622.1
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I wonder if they know what the weather will be like tomorrow.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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ummm! 2100
Do you get a free lift pass when your 139?
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Best give more prominence to PG's grass skiing, then. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Time to start investing in snow dome shares then.... 
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Clearly I am tired today I read 2010 not 2100!
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Of course, if we get that Ice Age that is touted, this will all be complete guff and everyone will have to ski everywhere... heaven.... I'm in heaven.... 
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As they say in Scotland the case is " unproven ".
No more of this enviromental guff - there has been extremes of temperatures for millions of years. Very little we can do to change that . The problem IMV is that we are looking at it in a very short term generational view. Would we have a 100,000 years perspective then we may view it quite differently
Short-termism I call it. Some others may call inteference in the economy, imperialist ( telling China and India - sorry, you can't do that. We can,but you cannot).
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Of course, if we get that Ice Age that is touted, this will all be complete guff and everyone will have to ski everywhere... heaven.... I'm in heaven....
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...or as Jeremy Clarkson superbly put it: "This has been the coldest March for 30 years, thanks to global warming..."
There was a cold snap in the late Middle Ages when the Thames would freeze over completely in the winter. I think there was a similar warm period earlier on as well
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