So let’s get this right. We paid for 90 per cent of the Met office’s £30 million computer; we also fund a hefty chunk of its annual £170 million running costs. And now the Met office tells us that it is incapable of providing the effective long range forecasts we could get for a fraction of the price from Piers Corbyn or Joe Bastardi?
If this government were seriously minded to have its bonfire of the quangos, I think I know which useless outfit I’d be tossing onto the pyre next.
Oh and in case you wondered why the Met Office has been getting it so badly wrong, here’s Bishop Hill on its chairman Robert Napier.
Interesting fact: the Chairman of the Met Office board, Robert Napier, is or has been:
- Chairman of the Green Fiscal Trust*
- Chairman of the trustees of the World Centre of Monitoring of Conservation
- a director of the Carbon Disclosure Project
- a director of the Carbon Group
- Chief executive of the World Wildlife Fund UK
He is also a member of the Green Alliance.
If we are supposed to reject the views of scientists, like Richard Lindzen, on the grounds that they have given speeches at thinktanks that have accepted money from oil interests, then I think its fair to say that we can safely discount anything said by the Met Office forthwith.
SO TRUE!!!!
let’s keep the met office in business! think of its entertainment value!
True, while there is no shortage of climate comedians, I’m not sure the Met can be easily replaced! They are prolific at being wrong! That said, I’m not a Brit, so they probably feel a bit differently about it.
I don’t I like it that they have such an expensive computer.
“The Met Office has not issued a seasonal forecast to the public and categorically denies forecasting a ‘mild winter’ as suggested by Boris Johnson”
Boris Johnson is not a member of the general public, he is the mayor of London.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the arms of govenment may well get a privileged view of the met offices forecasts.
It seems the Met Ofiice are now denying they even make seasonal forecasts anymore.
But we know better.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/20/warm-bias-how-the-met-office-mislead-the-british-public/#more-29800
The MET office per say has never made a forecast! However people employed by the MET are famous for their pronouncements of possible future climate!
Temperatures are falling tonight here in Lincolnshire ,the trees are covered in frost it looks like a Christmas card.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/em/waddington_latest_weather.html
Don’t say Christmas Card! – Say Holiday Card.
Let us be PC and make believe we are liberals! 😉
Conservatives can pretend to be liberal – it does not take much in the way of brain power – but have you ever seen a liberal pretend to be a conservative? Like spotting an albino cat at a Witch’s coven!
LOL liberals claim to be independents on the internet, then bash conservatives every chance they get…….
Mr. Napier’s resume is a shock. I would not have even imagined someone with his history would get a job like this. Now anyone can see tThe Met is biased and why their forecasts are always about global warming.
He must be sacked immediately.
This news is so shiocking it could bring one to tears over the injustice.
The Met doesn’t make forecast? Okay. Sure.
Here’s some Met forecasts:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/20/warm-bias-how-the-met-office-mislead-the-british-public/#more-29800