{"id":150172,"date":"2010-01-07T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4829"},"modified":"2010-01-07T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T19:05:13","slug":"must-see-climategate-uk-met-office-head-gets-a-grilling-and-fails-miserably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/150172","title":{"rendered":"MUST SEE: Climategate : UK MET office head gets a grilling and fails miserably"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=465\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Andrew Neil&quot;\">Andrew Neil<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=143\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;BBC&quot;\">BBC<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=111\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Headline Story&quot;\">Headline Story<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=165\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Met Office&quot;\">Met Office<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=320\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;UK Winter Forecast 2009\/10&quot;\">UK Winter Forecast 2009\/10<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"center\"><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/X8BCnX8LIIY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/X8BCnX8LIIY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>\nOh this is good, really good. We did a story two days ago, <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.climategate.com\/uk-met-office-enormously-wrong-weather-predictions-earn-deparment-big-pay-increases\">UK Met Office\u2019s enormously wrong weather predictions earn department big pay increases<\/a>, and it turns out now even the BBC is questioning The Met Office\u2019s weather forecasting record, and record salaries. And questioning surprisingly hard.<\/p>\n<p>In this clip, Andrew Neal grills Met Office chief John Hirst.<\/p>\n<p>The best line (4:08) of the video and perhaps of the year: \u201cSince you can\u2019t the summer or the winter right in your forecasts, why should we give any credence to your forecast to what the temperature will be in the 2050 or 2020, which is what you do.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This is the BBC? Sound more like Fox News, and we love it!<\/p>\n<p>Source: climategate.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4829\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K38M_OEVrk094qKWVcxUngTdiTw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K38M_OEVrk094qKWVcxUngTdiTw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K38M_OEVrk094qKWVcxUngTdiTw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K38M_OEVrk094qKWVcxUngTdiTw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/n_PzMunxuHg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Andrew Neil, BBC, Headline Story, Met Office, UK Winter Forecast 2009\/10 Oh this is good, really good. We did a story two days ago, UK Met Office\u2019s enormously wrong weather predictions earn department big pay increases, and it turns out now even the BBC is questioning The Met Office\u2019s weather forecasting record, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}