Within a few years] winter snowfall [in the UK] will become a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” —DAVID VINER, SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST, 200012 •“European cities will be plunged beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a Siberian climate by 2020.” —MARK TOWNSEND AND PAUL HARRIS, QUOTING A PENTAGON REPORT IN THE GUARDIAN, 200413