‘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.’
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