Okay, so I live in Vancouver and it hardly ever snows here at Christmas, anyway. And the nature of climate change -- which increases the likelihood of unusual weather events -- means a white Christmas may be more probably now than in the past. But we have a trend and the skiers aren't going to like it.

Check this article from the Independent Online, which quotes Dr. Michael Coughlan, head of the National Climate Centre [1] at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, as saying:

"One probably has to go back into prehistoric times - and way back in them - to be seeing these sorts of temperatures."

Just to add to the record, NASA also announced that 2005 was the hottest year on record.