text: Meteorologist Anthony Watts: "Apparently, Gore has never noted that climate scientists once thought snowfall would disappear.But wait, there's more. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become ?a very rare and exciting event?. ?Children just aren't going to know what snow is,? Viner said.