predicting chaotic systems

There are idiots in every profession, and The Independent can be relied to find them.

In fact one of the better predictions of the climate scientists, back in 2010, was that global warming - by making the Barents and Kara Seas ice-free more often - was going to up the frequency of heavy snow storms in Northern Europe.

It got published just before a particularly dramatic bunch of early snowfalls surprised northern Europe. Oosten seems to have forgotten about that, or maybe he was talking about a much longer-term future.