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There's a difference between scientific predictions and popular-press predictions. Your example (“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”) is not a scientific one, but one spread by popular press with no scientific research to back it up.

The difference is important, because inaccurate reporting by the popular press undermines science.

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The question then is why Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, was saying such things to newspapers twenty years ago.

Very true, and its important to note that even the IPCC is nowhere near claiming the world is collapsing in 12, 30, 50 or 80 years.

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