Confused About The Met Office

[n0 b o]

The Met Office is A GLOBAL JOKE!

7 Jan 2010

I'm not sure I got all this.

Help me.

The Met Office does three kinds of predictions:

short-term, seasonal, and long-term.

The Met is best in the world at short-term, helping emergency personnel
respond to weather extremes, but, as of the 28th of December, they had
nothing on their site predicting the present upcoming "cold snap."

Today, England is suffering from a shortage of fuel, snowplows and, even,
road salt. Vehicles are stranded and, last count, 22 people dead. This was
good, the best in the world.?

Met Office CEO John Hirst defends this record.?

Number two:

The Met Office's seasonal predictions aren't as "developed," as its long
term predictions - the very best at what they do.

So, from the people who hadn't anticipated the present "cold snap" until
sometime after the 28th of December.. Early January.? From the people who
admit that their seasonal forecasting is the "trickiest" of their jobs..
That they have trouble telling if the winter will be colder or warmer than
last.. We are to believe that their long term forecasts of weather in 2020,
or 2050, are their Very Most Accurate predictions?

Is this bizarre?

Met Office CEO John Hirst will be, if not dead, in 2020 long retired. And,
as he explained about the mistaken predictions of 2007, they didn't happen
on his watch, so the new Met Office CEO will blame John Hirst. Somehow, I
have a feeling their long term predictions will be at least as accurate
measuring caterpiller rings or chanting over dead animal bones.

And it would cost less!

Warmest Regards

Bon_0

"It is a remarkable fact that despite the worldwide expenditure of perhaps
US$50 billion since 1990, and the efforts of tens of thousands of scientists
worldwide, no human climate signal has yet been detected that is distinct
from natural variation."

Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville