{"id":370180,"date":"2010-02-27T08:36:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T13:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5249"},"modified":"2010-02-27T08:36:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T13:36:19","slug":"met-office-gets-12m-bonuses-by-louise-gray-environment-correspondent-the-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/370180","title":{"rendered":"Met Office gets \u00a312m bonuses by Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent, The Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=419\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Front Page News&quot;\">Front Page News<\/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=33\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Piers Corbyn&quot;\">Piers Corbyn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=26\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Updated&quot;\">Updated<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Staff at the Met Office were awarded more than \u00a312 million in bonuses in the last five years, it has been disclosed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The performance-related payout comes despite repeated criticism of the national weather service. <\/p>\n<p>Forecasters were lambasted after their predictions of a barbeque summer turned into a washout. This was followed by forecasts of a mild winter which has turned out to be one of the coldest on record. The Met Office could be dropped by the BBC for the first time in 90 years when its contract expires in April. <\/p>\n<p>However, staff members, including television presenters employed by the Met Office, received average bonuses of nearly \u00a31,500 each in the past year. <\/p>\n<p>The bonuses were revealed in a parliamentary answer by Kevan Jones, the Defence Minister.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\"><strong>Updated below from the Daily Express<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5249\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZCGZYhbkeS8krlCaGjAOAYz-tUI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZCGZYhbkeS8krlCaGjAOAYz-tUI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZCGZYhbkeS8krlCaGjAOAYz-tUI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZCGZYhbkeS8krlCaGjAOAYz-tUI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/jmubDFdFkCA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Front Page News, Met Office, Piers Corbyn, Updated Staff at the Met Office were awarded more than \u00a312 million in bonuses in the last five years, it has been disclosed. The performance-related payout comes despite repeated criticism of the national weather service. Forecasters were lambasted after their predictions of a barbeque summer turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370180","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=370180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}