‘New Consensus’ Flashback 2005: George Monbiot says freezing winters ‘unlikely to recur’ in UK
Egg on his face: Monbiot in 2005: 'Winter is no longer the great grey longing of my childhood. The freezes this country suffered in 1982 and 1963 are - unless the Gulf Stream stops - unlikely to recur. Our summers will be long and warm. Across most of the upper northern hemisphere, climate change, so far, has been kind to us'
