Jan
The UK Met predicts a “mild” winter as Brits freeze their arses off
We cannot help but chuckle at the, we assume, unintended honesty.
Here we go again–another reminder of the fleeting integrity we face from government bodies as we welcome in the new year. As its citizens are freezing their arses off, the UK’s National Weather Service, known as the Met Office, is once again predicting a “mild winter.” The Met has been responsible for consistently false forecasts, usually in favor of global warming, with an entire section of their website that pushes climate change. As the Telegraph explains it:
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.
We did find the Met Office website unusually honest though, as you can see in the screen capture from their website.
[...] Hirst, chief of the UK’s Met Office (national weather service), and his crew has done such a fantastic job of convincing Brits that they are, in fact, actually feeling the heat of global warming right now, [...]