Saturday, 15 June 2013


June 14th, 2013 11:10

12 good reasons to scrap the Met Office

Another of the Met Office's famed Barbecue Winters
I love the Met Office, as you know.
That's why, I can't resist celebrating this compendium of its achievements prepared by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Whenever it's criticised, the Met Office like nothing better than to have its extensive PR operation (funded with the help of the £200 million we pay the Met Office each year out of our taxes) go into extreme denial mode, knowing that its mendacious, straw-man-filled defence will be reported uncritically everywhere from the BBC and the Guardian to the New Statesman.
So, Met Office Reality Denial Machine: get weaving with this lot…
The Met Office’s temperature forecasts issued in 12 out of the last 13 years have been too warm. None of the forecasts issued ended up too cold. That makes the error… Read More