However Betony Garner, of the Ski Club of Great Britain, insisted the snow sport industry was taking climate change seriously.

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Some real world advice from a continental climate about driving in severe cold and snow conditions.

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First of all, we just got five feet of snow in Washington and so everybody is like -- a lot of the people who are opponents of climate change, they say, see, look at that, there's all this snow on the ground, this doesn't mean anything.

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Further loss of Arctic ice will see radiation absorbed by darker seawater and snow-free land, potentially warming the Earth's climate at an even faster rate than current observational data indicates.

BBC: Canadian Arctic sheds ice chunk

Southern India's tropical climate invites use of coconut milk in recipes, while near the snow-topped Himalayas, you're not likely to find coconuts in the cuisine.

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"We used computer models to simulate the climate forcing impact of the observed changes in soot concentrations in Greenland snow during the past 215 years, " said co-author Mark Flanner from the University of California.

BBC: Human activities have left a visible mark on the Arctic

In his statement, he told MPs that the government would investigate whether a "step-change" in the UK's climate means more money must be spent on equipment to deal with heavy snow.

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Snow and ice will arrive and sensible individuals will flee to their warm, smelly gyms and pressurized bubbles and climate-controlled sweat dens.

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