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Print articleApproximately 20 tonnes of real snow was dropped on Centenary Square, Bradford, to encourage people to think about climate change.
The Council's climate change awareness programme has a slogan 'act now before it snowballs' and has a theme of conflicting seasons to reflect the changes to the world's weather as a result of global warming.
Children from the Council's nursery, Cavell House, were invited to come and play in the snow.
During the event, Council staff were distributing free climate change guides and explaining what the Council is doing to raise awareness of the issue in the Bradford district.
Tracey Thackray, Marketing Officer for Bradford Council, said:
?The snow event was designed to illustrate the changes in climate and to support the ongoing awareness campaign which highlights weather extremes (the summer campaign being a snowball on lush green grass). The children who came from the nursery had never seen 'proper snow' before and so were delighted to be able to play in it.
?The spectacle of the snow encouraged people to find out what was going on and was a fun way of delivering a very serious message. The event was an opportunity for staff to speak directly to members of the public about climate change. Over 500 guides were given out to members of the public who were interested in finding out more.
?We believe that speaking to people face to face about climate change, recycling and saving energy is one of the best ways of delivering our message which is that climate change is real and is happening now and we can all do something to tackle it.?
