The Met Office gives us the warmist weather
Eric Gisin
The Met Office gives us the warmist weather
The UK's official weather forecasters are determined that winters should be mild, in the face of
the frozen facts, says Christopher Booker
By Christopher Booker
Published: 7:12PM GMT 02 Jan 2010
[picture] The Met Office forecast an unusually mild winter, but snow fell on Britain to usher in
2010
Shortly after midnight on Friday morning, as 200,000 merrymakers were departing from the Thames
after enjoying a spectacular fireworks show in sub-zero temperatures, flakes of snow began to fall
on Whitehall. In light of the Met Office's prediction that this would be a "mild" winter, with
temperatures above average, it seemed an apt way to start the New Year. But hasn't the time come
for us to stop treating the serial inaccuracy of Met Office forecasts as just a joke and see it for
what it is - a national scandal?
The reason the Met Office so persistently gets its seasonal forecasts wrong is that it has been
hi-jacked from the role for which we pay it nearly �200 million a year, to become one of the
world's major propaganda engines for the belief in man-made global warming. Over the past three
years, it has become a laughing stock for forecasts which are invariably wrong in the same
direction.
The year 2007, it predicted, would be "the warmest ever" - just before global tempratures plunged
by more than the entire net warming of the 20th century, Three years running it predicted warmer
than average winters - as large parts of the northern hemisphere endured record cold and snowfalls.
Last year's "barbecue summer" was the third time running that predictions of a summer drier and
warmer than average prefaced weeks of rain and cold. Last week the Met Office was again predicting
that 2010 will be the "warmest year" on record, while Europe and the US look to be facing further
weeks of intense cold.
What is not generally realised is that the UK Met Office has been, since 1990, at the very centre
of the campaign to convince the world that it faces catastrophe through global warming. (Its
website now proclaims it to be "the Met Office for Weather and Climate Change".) Its then-director,
Dr John Houghton, was the single most influential figure in setting up the UN's Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the chief driver of climate alarmism. Its Hadley Centre for
Climate Change, along with the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (CRU), was put in charge of the
most prestigious of the four official global temperature records. In line with IPCC theory, its
computers were programmed to predict that, as CO2 levels rose, temperatures would inevitably
follow. From 1990 to 2007, the Department of the Environment gave the Met Office no less than �146
million for its "climate predictions programme".
But in the past three years, with the Met Office chaired by Robert Napier, a former global warming
activist and previously head of WWF UK, its pretensions have been exposed as never before. The
"Climategate" leak of documents from the CRU, along with further revelations from Russian
scientists, have shown the CRU/Met Office alliance systematically manipulating temperature data,
past and present, to show the world growing warmer than the evidence justified. And those same
computers used to predict temperatures 100 years ahead for the IPCC have also been used to produce
those weather forecasts that prove so consistently wrong.
Scientific method has gone out of the window, to support a theory that looks more questionable than
ever. The whole set-up - Met Office, Hadley Centre, the CRU, the IPCC - looks hopelessly
compromised. It is a state of affairs so bizarre that it cries out for political intervention. Yet
our politicians, from Gordon Brown and David Cameron down, are so in thrall to this new religion
that they cannot see evidence staring them in the face - that the show has gone off the rails. How
many more winters and summers will it take before sanity finally breaks in to put an end to this
scandal?
enigma
Green Turtle
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>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6924898/The-Met-Office-gives-us-the-warmist-weather.html
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> "comment" = opinion = blog
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And, what facts in the article don't you agree with?
I mean, your comment here is an opinion, so, does that invalidate your
opinion then? (gee, is so fun to bitch slap you with you OWN logic).
So, are we to trust your opining because is only an posting by you on the
internet?
Anyway, I await what facts such as the VERY cold winter and the STUPID
predictions by the MET...
I was saying the AGW crowd is like the emperor with no clothing on. However,
now that emperor is freeing it ass off as it runs around with no clothing
on.
This is becoming a clown show. The goose been cooked here, and this global
warming shit is going the way of the bird flu scare and the Year 2000
bug....
Super Turtle
gordo
You wish...There is no AGW crowd.There are scientists and what they
are telling us is uncomfortable in the least.I am glad that there is a
Super Turtle because turtles and other life on earth is heading for
extinction for many reasons.Climate change is among the reasons.
richp
> "enigma" <enigma_...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> news:249c8107-66ff-4910...@a15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
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> >>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/69248...
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> > "comment" = opinion = blog
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> And, what facts in the article don't you agree with?
>
> I mean, your comment here is an opinion, so, does that invalidate your
> opinion then? (gee, is so fun to bitch slap you with you OWN logic).
>
> So, are we to trust your opining because is only an posting by you on the
> internet?
>
> Anyway, I await what facts such as the VERY cold winter and the STUPID
> predictions by the MET...
>
> I was saying the AGW crowd is like the emperor with no clothing on. However,
> now that emperor is freeing it ass off as it runs around with no clothing
> on.
>
> This is becoming a clown show. The goose been cooked here, and this global
> warming shit is going the way of the bird flu scare and the Year 2000
> bug....
>
> Super Turtle
You've saying that since before the year 200 so fuck off