The Climate Commission, the (very handsomely) paid climate propaganda wing of the Gillard government, trots out the drearily predictable line that the recent heatwave in Australia is all due to climate change and that if only we would reduce our… Read More ›
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Agenda-driven Met Office's grudging concessions to reality
It’s bizarre to watch the UK Met Office squirm as it desperately tries to maintain an ideological position in the face of conflicting evidence. I never would have believed that such a formerly respected institution, scientific impartiality at its core,… Read More ›
Solar decline "unlikely to offset greenhouse warming": Met Office
Naturally, nothing the Sun (1.9891×1030 kg of blazing hot nuclear fusion right on our doorstep) can do compares with what our omnipotent man-made CO2 can do – all, er, hundred odd parts per million of it. Another study, undertaken by the… Read More ›
UK Met Office has some explaining to do
A Freedom of Information request to the UK Met Office has revealed that there was no “secret” forecast of extreme cold given to the UK government, as claimed in the second report here. Autonomous Mind takes up the story: A… Read More ›
More supercomputers!
All that’s standing between the UK Met Office and better forecasts is bigger and more expensive supercomputers. So says chief scientist Julia Slingo, in an interview in Nature: What’s the biggest obstacle to creating better, hazard-relevant weather forecasts? Access to… Read More ›
Chairman of UK Met Office awarded CBE
For “public service” – Robert Napier is the head of the UK’s Met Office, you know, the one that couldn’t predict the outcome of a one-horse race, the “barbecue summer” Met Office, the “warmer winters” Met Office that somehow missed… Read More ›
UK/Australian seasonal forecasts: FAIL
Both the UK Met Office and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology are strapped in tight to the global warming rollercoaster. Their models staunchly ignore or play down any natural effects on the climate, and artificially enhance the effects of CO2… Read More ›
UK Met Office: greenhouse gases "the glaringly obvious explanation"
The moonbat papers are gleefully trumpeting alarmist stories this morning about the latest State of the Climate report from the UK Met Office and the US NOAA, like this one in the UK Telegraph: The State of the Climate report shows… Read More ›
Phil Jones to face UK Parliamentary enquiry today
AP (via the SMH) reports that Phil Jones and the Met Office head are due to testify at a UK Parliamentary enquiry: The scientist at the center of the controversy over e-mails stolen from a British climate research center is… Read More ›
Aussie weather data "discarded or misused" by Met Office
Another diligent blogger spots yet more “minor” errors in the Met Office data: A science blogger has uncovered a catalogue of errors in Met Office records that form a central part of the scientific evidence for global warming. The mistakes,… Read More ›