we are starting to see a trend of fewer cold winters and more heatwaves in Britain, which we can link to global warming.”
h/t to Ian
we are starting to see a trend of fewer cold winters and more heatwaves in Britain, which we can link to global warming.”
h/t to Ian
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. – Albert Einstein
h/t to Marc Morano
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
In the same issue they also complain about how stupid creationists are. They prefer their own variety of stupid.
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:
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.
Gore mentor Paul Ehrlich in 1968 :
“If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”
Ehrlich forecasted that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million.