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On the other hand the change has been much slower than expected.

In the late 1980s there were predictions that snow would entirely disappear in the UK (or at least England) by the end of the century and children would grow up never seeing snow.

We still have heavy snow every few years, and some snow most winters.

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I would be curious if you have any source for this. I spent about 30 minutes looking through google scholar looking for studies from the 1980s which included snow projections under climate change to no avail.

I even got an account to a british newspaper database website [1] to try to find popular discussion of this claim. I was unable to find anything in maybe 10 minutes of looking.

[1] https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/198...

EDIT: I will also drop this citation for the general question of whether change is happening slower than previously predicted https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...

In the late-80s there were also well-publicized predictions that Jesus would return to earth. There's always some crackpot who gets it wrong that one can point to years later as a counter-example ("In the 70s, Time magazine predicted an ice age!"). But what was the general consensus? Without looking it up, I doubt the consensus was nearly that dire.

>("In the 70s, Time magazine predicted an ice age!")

I remember those articles and I kind of believed them until President Carter brought up global warming.

As many of us know now, those where based upon studies bought and paid for by the oil companies.

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