Natch the Diana Express has a front page headline dissing "Global Warming" today, because they are worthless ignorant snivelling fuckpigs.
I can sympathise with their confusion, here's a Guardian article from 2004.
"Unfortunately, it's just getting too hot for the Scottish ski industry," said David Viner, of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. "It is very vulnerable to climate change; the resorts have always been marginal in terms of snow and, as the rate of climate change increases, it is hard to see a long-term future."
Adam Watson, from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, believes the industry has no more than 20 years left.
Global warming forces sale of Scottish winter sports resorts | UK news | The Guardian
I prefer not to characterise any group as 'worthless ignorant snivelling fuckpigs', because they can't both be wrong. surely?
Thursday looks to be the best bet for skiing at Yad Moss, a bit windy, but the weekend seems to be forecast misty.
Snow Report
But David Viner could well be right: the general increase in air temperature
whilst the Atlantic Conveyor works would indeed make circumstances favourable for skiing in Scotland less likely.
However, if the Atlantic Conveyor has stopped (or at least, has stopped coming as far as our shores) then that would indeed make cold, snowy weather much more likely. If that's happened, then it's proved scientists right because they said that was what would happen.
The only problem is use of language. Global warming is accurate insofar that the average temperature of the planet is indeed increasing, but it does give ammunition to the WISFs when local conditions buck the trend.
Climate change is better in some ways, but then the WISFs tell us that the climate is always changing. So it is, but previously it hasn't been down to the activities of humans.
The fact remains that January this year was the warmest ever recorded globally, whereas of course it was bloody cold here. Apparently 2010 is currently rivalling 1998 as the warmest year ever recorded.