Reminder - for 20 years Global Warming Alarmists have warned us that winter and snow would be rare to non-existent

Yes for years the Global Warming extremists have been saying that we would forget what snow is.  Some of their more famous quotes.

Al Gore, for example, claimed that the summers in the Arctic would become ice-free by 2015, but that hasn’t happened. Likewise, scientists predicted that snow would be a “thing of the past” and that our children will not know what snow is. But since 2017, there have been historic snowfall events across the globe, including those in New York and the recent ones in Spain and Japan. 

In 2000, for instance, came this famous  prediction from the then centre of global warming alarmism:

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”.

"Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

Also in 2000, this  prediction from Professor Mojib Latif of Germany’s GEOMAR Heimholtz Centre for Ocean Research:

Winters with strong frosts and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will no longer exist at our latitudes.

In 2008,  another prediction:

A study of snowfall spanning 60 years has indicated that the Alps’s entire winter sports industry could grind to a halt through lack of snow.... In some years the amount that fell was 60 per cent lower than was typical in the early 1980s, said Christoph Marty, from the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos, who analysed the records.

"I don’t believe we will see the kind of snow conditions we have experienced in past decades,” he said.

Uber-Greenie Mark Lynas told us in 2004: .

Snow has become so rare that when it does fall – often just for a few hours – everything grinds to a halt.

Here's what George Monbiot had to say about winters and climate change back in 2005: 

Winter is no longer the great grey longing of my childhood. The freezes this country suffered in 1982 and 1963 are – unless the Gulf Stream stops – unlikely to recur.

A 2007 BBC  “One Planet Special” - entitled with ominous finality “It Seems the Winters of Our Youth are Unlikely to Return - spoke to several climate scientists:

Richard Hollingham: Now those of us who grew up with very cold winters, who tell our children that winter’s not what it used to be, we’re right, aren’t we?

Brenda Ekwurzel [Union of Concerned Scientists">: Yes, absolutely. It has changed....

Hollingham: Sitting here at the BBC, leafing through my old photos, I can’t help feeling nostalgic for proper winters. This year we had just one day of snow in southern Britain.

Meanwhile for those of us who live in the Real World.

Major Winter Storm Unleashes Ice, Snow, Record Cold Across US | TODAY 

Historic winter storm leaves millions of Texas residents without power, water pressure