Climate change could one day doom "white Christmas"


  • World
  • Tuesday, 23 Dec 2008

BERLIN (Reuters) - The odds of a "white Christmas" in temperate parts of the northern hemisphere have diminished in the last century due to climate change and will likely decline further by 2100, climate and meteorology experts said.

Even though heavy snow this year will guarantee a white Christmas in many parts of Asia, Europe and North America, a 0.7-degree Celsius rise in world temperatures since 1900 and projected bigger rises by 2100 suggest an inexorable trend.

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